68 Twenty-sixth Reporj on the State Museum. 



sus, from which it differs in its more tomentose pileus, larger 

 tubes, smaller spores and smoother stem. 



POLYPORUS C^RULEOPORUS Peck. 



Pileus fleshy, broadly convex, subtomentose, moist or hygro- 

 phanous, brown; pores short, angular, decurrent, grayish-blue; 

 stem central or eccentric, solid, colored like the pileus, sometimes 

 tinged with the color of the pores ; flesh white. 



Plant gregarious or subcsespitose, 2' high, pileus l'-2' broad, 

 stem 2"-3" thick. 



Moist shaded banks. Co pake. October. 



The peculiar color of the pores is a characteristic feature in this 

 species. It and the three following species belong to the section 

 Mesqpus. , 



PoLYPORUS GRISETJS PecTc. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, often irregular, smooth or with 

 a minute appressed silkiness, dry, gray ; pores small, short, 

 unequal, somewhat angular, pallid, the mouths white ; stem cen- 

 tral, thick, short, concolorous ; flesh pinkish-gray. 



Plant 2-3' high, pileus 3-5' broad, stem 6"-10" thick. 



Shaded banks, Copake. October. 



The pores are sometimes decurrent and the walls or dissepiments 

 are thickened on the edge. 



PoLYPORUS FLAVIDIJS PecTc. 



Pileus fleshy, tough, depressed or funnel-form, smooth, rarely a 

 little villous on the disk, zonate, yellow with darker bands, the 

 margin sometimes lobed and wavy ; pores short, minute, angular, 

 yellow ; stem central, solid, slightly tapering downwards, smooth, 

 subconcolorous. 



Plant 3-5' high, pileus 2'-4' broad, stem 3"-4:" thick. 



Ground in woods. Worcester. July. 



POLYPORU* SPLENDENS Peck. 



Pileus thin, coriaceous, expanded, subumbilicate, slightly zonate, 

 silky, with close radiating fibers, shining, dark ferruginous when 

 moist, tawny ferruginous when dry, the margin deeply fimbriate ; 

 pores small, angular, short, subconcolorous ; stem slender, equal, 

 tomentose, concolorous. 



Plant r high, pileus 6"-10" broad, stem .5"-!" thick. 



Much decayed stumps. Center. August. 



This is smaller, thinner, brighter colored and more shining than 



