REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I9OO 169 



Polyporus distortus Schw. 



Low ground near Ticonderoga. September. The plants reported 

 under the name, P. a b o r t i v u s, in the 38th repoi't of the New York 

 state fmtseum, p. 90, probably belong to this species, though they were 

 growing singly and did not have the color ascribed to the pileus of this 

 singular fungus. 



Fomes pinicola Fr. 



This species is very common in the Adirondack region, growing on 

 old trunks of coniferous trees. If rightly limited it is a most variable 

 species, not only in shape and color but also in size. It is usually 3-5 

 inches in diameter, but sometimes much larger. Two specimens were 

 found' growing on a hemlock stump near Gansevoort that were more 

 depressed than usual and' w^ere from 10 to 12 inches broad. A form 

 growing on wood of deciduous trees is less common and is destitute of 

 the red and yellow colors that are generally present in the forms on 

 wood of coniferous trees. 



Fomes carneus Nees. 

 Very abundant on decaying trunks of spruce trees in the Adirondack 

 region. It is perennial, and the upper surface of the pileus generally 

 becomes more or less blackened after the first year. Occasionally a new 

 flesh colored growth overspreads it either wholly or in part. Two forms 

 occur which depart somewhat from the type. In one the pileus is 

 more or less zonate, specially toward the margin, though often indis- 

 tinctly so. Sometimes the margin is zonate and the rest tuberculate. 

 This seems to me to be worthy of varietal distinction, and I propose for 

 it the name, Fomes carneus subzonatus n, var. Its pilei 

 are often imbricated, and the color is paler than in the common form. In 

 the other the surface of the pileus is uneven and scabrous with minute 

 tufts of short, erect hairs or fibrils. To the naked eye the surface ap- 

 pears somewhat granular. To this variety I apply the name, Fomes 

 carneus granular is n. var. 



Trametes piceinus Pk, 



Recent observations on the fungus described under the name, Poly- 

 porus piceinus, in the 42d report of the New York state museum^ p. 

 25, show that it is a Trametes closely allied to T. abietis Karst., but 

 apparently distinct by its minute pores with entire dissepiments and by the 

 jthin pileus, which is persistently tonjentQse and marked b/ matiy coacep.^ 



