Annual Report of the State Botanist. 27 



Polyporus sulpliurellus, n. sp. 



Resupinate, effused, very thiu, following the inequalities of the 

 matrix ; subiculum and margin downy, white ; pores very short, 

 minute, rotund, very pale-yellow , often with a slight salmon tint, the 

 issepiments obtuse. 



Dead bark of poplar. Catskill mountains. Sept. 



Trametes Pini, Fr. 

 Railroad ties. Fishkill. Pine trees. Eastport, Long Island. Aug. 



Merulius aureus, Fr. 



Decaying wood of balsam, Abies balsamea. North Elba. Sept 

 In drying, the specimens become orange colored. 



Merulius moUuscus, Fr. 

 Bark and decorticated wood of spruce. Averyville, Essex county. 

 Sept. 



Phlebia vaga, F7\ 



Prostrate trunks of acerose trees. North Elba. Sept. 



Phlebia acerina, n. sp. 



Resupinate, effused, irregular, subglabrous beneath, the margin 

 entire ; hymenium dingy cream color, becoming darker with age, the 

 folds irregular, obtuse, dentate, subj^orous. 



Wood and bark of maple, Acer saccharinum. Mechanicville. July. 



Closely related to P. vaga from which it appears to be distinct by 

 its entire nearly glabrous margin and less tuberculose or papillate 

 hymenium. 



Odontia Pruni, Lasch. 



Dead bark of wild red cherry. Primus Pennsylvanica. Adirondack 

 mountains. Sept. 



Odontia fusca, G. & E. 



Decaying wood of spruce. Averyville. Sept. 

 Thelephora scoparia, n. sp. 



[Plate 2. Figs. 20, 21.] 



Incrusting small plants, mosses, etc., here and there emitting 

 fascicles of branches, united below, subterete, acuminate or fimbri- 

 ately incised, at first i^ale or whitish, soon ferruginous .brown ; 

 hymenium even, pruinose-pubesceut ; spores angular, rough, colored, 

 .0003 to .0004 in. long. 



Bethlehem and Selkirk. Aug. 



