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Context very thin, 12 mm. 



Surface villose, with simple hairs; hymenium pale-rose-tinted 



when fresh. i. F. versatilis. 



Surface strigose, with branched hairs; hymenium pallid to 



brown. 2. F. cladotricha. 



Context usually quite thick, 315 mm. 



Surface hispid. 3. F. hispidula. 



Surface aculeate. 4. F. aculeifer. 



I. FUNALIA VERSATILIS (Berk.) Murrill 



Pileus effused-reflexed, imbricate, laterally connate, coriaceous, 

 the reflexed portion 2-3 X 3-6 X 0.3-0.8 cm. ; surface villose, 

 spuriously and opaquely zoned, grayish-white, becoming um- 

 brinous to ferruginous behind with age; margin thin, acute, 

 concolorous, undulate to lobed; context pallid, very thin, mem- 

 branous, fibrous, scarcely a mm. thick; tubes slender, 5-7 mm. 

 long, isabelline within, mouths very variable in size and shape, 

 0.5-2 mm. broad, circular to angular or slightly daedaleoid, 

 edges thin, entire to toothed, grayish-isabelline, pale-rose-tinted 

 when fresh; spores oblong-allantoid, 6-8 X 2-4 /*. 



Common throughout on dead deciduous and coniferous wood. 

 Funalia villosa (Sw.) Murrill is not distinct. Boletus villosus Sw. 

 is Coriolus pinsitus (Fries) Pat., but Swartz' name cannot be 

 used because B. villosus Huds. has priority. 



2. FUNALIA CLADOTRICHA (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill 



Pileus dimidiate, sometimes effused-reflexed, 2-5 X 3-8 X 

 0.5-0.8 cm.; surface brown, conspicuously covered with branched, 

 strigose hairs, which are somewhat concentrically arranged in 

 zones, especially near the margin, which is thin, concolorous, 

 undulate; context thin, soft-corky to spongy, brown, 1-2 mm. 

 thick; tubes long, uneven, irregular and variable in size, grayish- 

 brown within, 3-7 mm. long, mouths angular to daedaleoid, 

 averaging I mm. in breadth, edges thin, uneven to lacerate- 

 too thed, brown or grayish-umbrinous. 



Found once on dead wood in Cuba. 



3. FUNALIA HISPIDULA (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill 



Pileus small, undulate, dimidiate, 1-2 X 2-4.5 X 0.5-1 cm.; 

 surface ferruginous-umbrinous, hispid, azonate, anoderm; margin 

 thick, at least when young, subtomentose, slightly paler, sterile; 

 context zonate, fibrose-corky, shining-isabelline, 3-7 mm. thick; 

 tubes concolorous with the context, short, mouths circular and 

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