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developed 2 to 4 mm long, longer in oblique positions, shorter at 

 times, their mouths whitish or light yellow, darker when bruised 

 and pinkish buff to avellaneous in herbarium specimens, rounded 

 or somewhat angular in outline, averaging 3 to 3^ to a millimeter, 

 the dissepiments rather thin but entire; spores ellipsoidal or oblong 

 ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, sometimes obliquely apiculate, 4.5 to 

 6x2.5 to 4 fx; cystidia represented by small sterile organs, usually 

 clavately thickened at apex or thickened above but with a blunt- 

 pointed apex, 5 to 7 fi in diameter; tramal tissue of rather closely 

 compacted hyaline hyphae, unbranched, apparently without cross 

 walls or clamp connections, 4 to 6 fi in diameter. 



On wood of coniferous trees, especially spruce; more rarely on 

 wood of deciduous trees. 



Type locality: Osceola, N. Y. C. H. Peck. Frequent in the 

 northeastern United States and perhaps widely distributed across 

 the northern half of the country. 



Poria subiculosa (Peck) Cooke 



Plate 21, figures 1-5 



Grevillea, 14: 114. 1886 



Polyporus (Resupinati) subiculosus Peck, 31st Rep't N. Y. 

 State Mus., p. 37. 1879 



Original description. Subiculum widely effused, dense, but soft 

 and downy tomentose, tawny, cinnamon; pores forming patches 

 upon the subiculum, short, unequal, sometimes slightly labyrinthi- 

 form, cinereo-ferruginous, ferruginous-brown when bruised, the 

 dissepiments when young whitish and pruinose-villose. 



Creeping over mosses, decaying wood, and even stones, in sheltered 

 places. Copake. Oct. 



The patches are several inches in extent. The pores have a paler 

 hue than the subiculum, but they become darker when bruised. 



Notes. This anomalous species is well represented on the type 

 sheet though the material is not abundant. A second collection is 

 preserved in a herbarium box. The largest specimen is about 9 

 cm long and 6 cm broad. A dense, soft subiculum is first formed 

 over the surface "of the substratum and upon this the pores later 

 develop (plate 21, figure 1). The color of the mature hymenial 

 surface is wood brown to cinnamon or near ochraceous tawny. In 

 consistency even the dried plants are soft and coriaceous. A wide, 

 sterile, subiculose margin (frequently as much as 3 cm broad) 

 often surrounds the hymenium. The color of this is clay color to 

 ochraceous tawny or buckthorn brown and it is extremely soft and 



