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slightly sulcate, radiately furrowed, cremeous or isabelline to 

 fulvous or chestnut-colored and finally black behind; margin 

 obtuse, tomentose, white or cream-colored to ochraceous-fulvous; 

 context punky to soft-corky, homogeneous, 2-4 mm. thick, 

 fulvous, tinged with rhubarb when very young; tubes irregular, 

 daedaleoid, branched or forked, becoming much elongate radially, 

 5-15 mm. deep, about I mm. broad, wider with age, edges white 

 or ochraceous to fulvous, thin, rigid, sinuate, rarely splitting 

 even with age. 



Frequent in southern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, 

 Mexico, and certain other parts of tropical America on pine 

 railway ties and other forms of dead coniferous wood. 



