8 SOUTHERN POLYPORES 



thin, irregular, lobed, sometimes inflexed; context thin, white, 

 fibrous; tubes large, shallow, about I mm. deep, mouths hexag- 

 onal, quite regular, I mm. in diameter, edges thin, entire or 

 slightly dentate. 



Found on dead pine branches at Auburn, Alabama. 



6. CORIOLUS SUBECTYPUS Murrill 



Pileus imbricate, sessile, flabelliform, rather thin, slightly 

 flexible to rigid, 4-7 X 6-10 X 0.2-0.4 cm.; surface smooth, 

 glabrous, white to pallid, tinged with bay at times behind, 

 indistinctly concentrically furrowed, subshining, finely multi- 

 zonate; margin thin, undulate to lobed, sometimes inflexed 

 when dry; context white, punky, 2-3 mm. thick; tubes about 

 I mm. long, white within, mouths glistening, circular to angular, 

 6 to a mm., edges very thin, denticulate, white, pale-ochraceous 

 in dried specimens, rather firm when young, becoming flaccid 

 and wearing away with age; spores ovoid, 5-6 X 3-4 At. 



Found by Rau on dead wood in Florida. 



7. CORIOLUS OCHROTINCTELLUS Murrill 



Pileus subimbricate, dimidiate or flabelliform, applanate or 

 conchate, sessile to substipitate, rigid, more or less brittle, 

 2-6 X 3-9 X 0.2-0.5 cm.; surface glabrous, smooth, subshining, 

 ochroleucous with ochraceous zones; margin papery- thin, fragile, 

 often incurved, entire or undulate, rarely lobed; context milk- 

 white, fleshy- tough, somewhat friable, 1-3 mm. thick; tubes 

 1-3 mm. long, slender, white to ochroleucous within, mouths 

 very regular, angular, 4-5 to a mm., edges thin, entire, white 

 to ochraceous or isabelline; spores globose, 3 p. 



Found several times on decayed wood in Mississippi. 



8. CORIOLUS DRUMMONDII (Klotzsch) Pat. 



Pileus very thin, slightly flexible, but rather brittle, laterally 

 connate, somewhat imbricate, spatulate or flabelliform, 1-2 

 X 1-1.5 X 0.05-0.1 cm.; surface longitudinally fibrose-striate, 

 rough, nearly glabrous, pallid to light-bay, subzonate; margin 

 very thin, fimbriate, irregular; context thin, membranous, 

 white to pallid; tubes very short, less than I mm. thick, mouths 

 angular, radially elongate, 3-4 to a mm., pallid to discolored, 

 edges thin, flaccid, dentate to lacerate. 



Known originally only from New Orleans, Louisiana, but 

 recently found at Ocala, Florida, where it is said to be common on 

 cypress trunks. 



