Bui. 510, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate 111. 



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Lumber Sanitation: Wood-Rotting Funqi.— III. 



Fig. 1. — A pile of rejected hardwood logs which should have been removed or destroyed and not left 

 to breed fungi (fruit bodies of 6 or 7 different organisms were identified from tliis pHe). Fig. 2. — 

 Lemites berkeleyi fruiting on a hardwood tie. Fig. 3.— Hardwood pile foundations severely infected 

 with Polystictus versicolor. Fig. 4. — Daedalea querdna fruiting around a foundation block in a Peim- 

 sylvania storage yard. Fig. 6. — A badly infected piling stick in use at a Florida mUl. Fig. 6. — ^A 

 group of infected piling sticks at a Tennessee hardwood mill. Fig. 7. — Pile of 3-inch hard pine planks 

 badly infected with Peniophora gigantea (a very common condition at Portland, Me.; the fungus is 

 introduced from the South and develops rapidly in close piles). 



