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porus ^otundis, minutis, dissepimentis, tenuibus, hymenio concolore. 

 Ad truncos dejectos. — Bavenel 



This new species of polyporus is stemless; the pileus is oblong, 

 with a regularly rounded upper margin, and an irregularly linear 

 lower margin. It is from two to four inches long, and from one to 

 two inches wide, and not more than four lines in thickness. The 

 pileus is rigid and coriaceous, of a dark brown on the upper surface, 

 and its lower surface is covered with thick-set, stifT, bristly black 

 hair. 



Halulat. It grows on logs and old trees in pine and oak woods, 

 and was found in North Louisiana, near Minden and Homer, in the 

 month of August. 



