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2. INONOTUS FULVOMELLEUS Murrill 



Pileus somewhat irregular, dimidiate to subcircular, com- 

 pressed-ungulate, 3-5 X 5-10 X 1-3 cm.; surface uneven, fer- 

 ruginous to fulvous, slightly spuriously zonate, roughly hirsute 

 or shaggy with dense, branched, fulvous hairs; margin usually 

 thick, undulate, ochraceous-luteous, hispid; context radiate- 

 fibrous, luteous, shining, 3-7 mm. thick; tubes slender, 3-10 

 mm. long, dark-melleous within, mouths circular, 4-5 to a mm., 

 regular, covered when young with a bright-yellow powder, 

 edges thick, entire, flavous-melleous to melleous-f ulvous ; spores 

 ovoid, thin-walled, pale-ferruginous, 8 X 6/z; cystidia dark-red- 

 dish-brown, slender, conic, hooked at the tip, 10 /* thick at the 

 base, 60 /x or less in length. 



Found a few times on dead wood at high elevations in the Blue 

 Mountains, Jamaica. 



3. INONOTUS JAMAICENSIS Murrill 



Pileus dimidiate to triquetrous, convex, sessile, attached by a 

 broad base, simple or imbricate, 2 X 3 X 1-1.5 cm -' surface 

 encrusted, minutely rugose, cinereous behind, marked toward 

 the margin with dark-brown or black zones; margin regular, often 

 obtuse; context fibrous, fulvous, only a few millimeters thick; 

 tubes i cm. long, 4 to a mm., larger by confluence, fulvous, 

 polygonal to irregular, edges thin, entire; spores ovoid, smooth, 

 deep-ferruginous, i-2-guttulate, very copious, 7 X 5 /* 



Found once on dead branches on the Mabess River, Jamaica. 



4. INONOTUS PORRECTUS Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus flabelliform, more or less imbricate, tapering behind or 

 attached by a lateral stipitiform base, rarely slightly multiplex 

 with a common stipe when growing on the top of the substratum, 

 6-8 X 8-10 X 0.5-1.5 cm.; surface uneven, zonate, radiate- 

 rugose, with rather prominent ridges near the center, glabrous, 

 fulvous to bay; margin thin, undulate or lobed, pallid above, 

 distinctly marked below by a narrow, yellow, sterile zone; con- 

 text hard, fibrous, zonate, shining, bright-ochraceous-melleous, 

 thin in front, reaching I cm. or more thick behind; tubes about 

 2 mm. long, umbrinous within, mouths minute, angular, thin- 

 walled, 5-6 to a mm., edges at first whitish or grayish, becoming 

 umbrinous with age; spores copious, subglobose, smooth, fulvous, 

 4-5~5-5 Ml cystidia none. 



Type collected on a decaying stump on Caicos Islands, in the 

 Bahamas, December 18, 1907, Percy Wilson 7748 (herb. N. Y. 

 Bot. Card.). Also collected in Louisiana by A. B. Langlois. 



