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Polyporus flavidusj Peck. 



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

 on the disk, zonate, yellow with darker bands, the margin sometimes lobed or 

 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. 



Polyporus splendensj Peck. 



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

 shining, dark ferruginous when moist, tawny ferruginous when dry, the mar- 

 gin deeply fimbriate ; pores small, angular, short, subconcolorous ; stem slender, 

 equal, tomentose, concolorous. 



Plant 1' high, pileus 6"-10" broad, stem .5"-l" thick. 



Much decayed stumps. Center. August. 



Polyporus attenuatus, Peck. 



Eesupinate, effused, very thin, separable from the matrix, pinkish-ochre, 

 the margin whitish ; pores minute, subrotund, with thin acute dissepiments. 



Prostrate trunks of deciduous trees. Croghan. September. 

 The pores are scarcely visible to the naked eye. 



Craterellus caespitosus. Peck. 



Pileus fleshy, tough, irregular, expanded, centrally depressed or funnel- 

 form, smooth, moist, variable in color, greenish-yellow, pinkish-brown, or 

 blackish ; the margin sometimes decurved and lobed ; hymenium at first 

 smooth, then rugose-wrinkled, the folds decurrent on the short, solid, tough 

 stem which is either central or eccentric ; spores oblong, obtuse, sometimes 

 slightly curved, .00035 '-.00045' long. 



Plant caespitose, 6"-12" high, pileus 6"-10" broad. 



Decaying wood in swamps. Portville. September. 

 The pilei sometimes grow together, forming an intricate irregular 

 tuft. 



Grramliuia coriaria, Peck. 



Effused, membranaceous-tomentose, separable from the matrix, under side 

 and margin tawny-yellow, upper side and minute crowded granules greenish 

 or dingy olivaceous ; spores globose, rough, .0003' in diameter. 



Forming patches 1-3' in diameter on old scraps of leather in 

 damp places. Greenbnsh. August. 



