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Height, eighteen inches ; circumference, fifty-seven inches ; thickness of pileus 

 about one inch. From this it will be seen that the dried plants are only 

 about half their size when fresh. The flesh resembles in color and texture 

 that of P. sulphureus, to which the species is allied, but it is a little harder. 

 The dried plants have a decided and peculiar odor. 



POLYPORTJS (ANODERMEl) WeINMANNI Ft, 



Decaying hemlock trunks. Pine Hill. Sept. 



The whole plant sometimes acquires a reddish hue in drying. The pileus 

 is two or three inches broad. A tendency to form narrow zones on the mar- 

 gin is manifest. 



POLYPORUS (iNODERMEl) PLANUS Pk. 



Pileus thin, coriaceous, plane, suborbicular, about 1' broad, sometimes 

 confluent, dorsally attached, minutely villose or velvety, brown or brownish 

 fawn-colored, variegated with narrow darker glabrous zones, margin whitish ; 

 pores minute, obtuse, short, subrotund, whitish or pallid ; flesh pallid. 



Dead branches. North Greenbush. 



This has the colors of P. scutellatus, but the thin plane pileus and short 

 pores are so unlike that species that I am compelled to regard it as distinct. 



Polyporus (Resupinati) subiculosus PA\ 



Subiculum widely effused, dense, but soft and downy-tomentose, tawny- 

 cinnamon ; pores forming patches upon the subiculum, short, unequal, some- 

 times slightly labyrinthiform, 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. 



Polyporus (Resupinati) semitinctus Pk. 



Subiculum thin, soft, cottony, separable from the matrix, whitish, more or 

 less tinged with lilac, sometimes forming branching creeping threads ; pores 

 very short, unequal, whitish or pale cream-color, the dissepiments at first ob- 

 tuse, then thinner, toothed on the edge. 



Under surface of maple chips. Griffins. Sept. 



This is a soft, delicate species, with merulioid pores, similar to those of 

 P. violaoeus. The lilac stains appear on the subiculum only. 



Polyporus (Resupinati) induratus Pk. 



Effused, hard, determinate, l"-2" thick, inseparable from the matrix, 

 almost wholly composed of minute subrotund vesicular pores, yellowish or 

 pale-ochre, the surface slightly pruinose and tinged with flesh-color ; the yel- 

 lowish mycelium or subiculum penetrating the matrix. 



Decaying wood. Oneida. H. A. Warne. 



This species is remarkable for the peculiar character of the pores which 

 form little cells or cavities instead of tubes, so that in whatever direction the 

 mass is cut or broken, the section appears equally porous. Perhaps this 

 character will necessitate the formation of a new genus. 



