1897.] Botany. 339 
BOTANY." 
New Species of Fungi from Various Localities.—The fol- 
lowing new species of fungi have been received from various localities 
in North America within the past few months: 
Potyporus suBLUTEUS E. & E. On decaying beech, London, 
Canada, November, 1896 (Dearness, 699c). Effused with the upper 
margin more or less reflexed, margin or surface of the pores light yellow 
(when dry), substance soft and pliable, pilei about 1 cm. long by 3—4 
em. broad, white, short-tomentose, zoneless, subimbricate, margins 
obtuse, flesh thin, white, of woolly-floccose texture, not at all fibrous. 
Pores uneven, subcolliculose, unequal in size, round or subsinuous, $—3 
mm. diam., ł—1 cm. long, margin subdentate, dissepiments thin. Spores 
oblong, a little narrower at one end, white 4-6 x 13-2. The pores, 
like the flesh of the pileus, are white inside. 
Porta SUBVIOLACEA E. & E. Underside of decaying oak limbs, 
lying on the ground, Newfield, N. J., September and October, 1896. 
Subiculum archnoid-tomentose, white, loose, not separable from the 
matrix, hymenium at first violet-color with the pores mere hemispher- 
ical depressions, but the violet soon fades to dirty white, or yellowish- 
white, and the pores become more elongated, but still short, more or 
less irregular in shape, with the margins dentate. Spores allantoid, 
hyaline, 34 x 1g. Soft, juicy and flexible when fresh. 
Favo.us srriatutus E. & E. On rotten limba: in woods, Mt. Cuba, 
Delaware, July, 1896 (Commons, No. 2781). 
Stipitate. Pileus convex-plane, firm and rigid when dry, umbilicate, 
radiate-striate with fine, more deeply colored lines, but not sulcate, — 
4-5 cm. across, pale light yellow when dry, margin paler, sublobate and 
uneven, narrowly incurved. Stem central, about 1 cm. long and 3-5 
mm. thick, enlarged above into the pileus, solid, pale yellowish, under 
the lens finely velutinous. Pores unequal, decurrent, subquadrangular 
or elliptical, 1-2 mm. deep, margins acute and minutely erose-dentate. 
Spores allantoid, hyaline, 5-7 x 1#. Color, pale yellow throughout. 
A coarser, thicker plant than F. curtisii Berk., and lacks the ciliate 
margin and setulose stipe, nor can it be referalile to Polyporus alveo- 
larius Bose. 
Corticrum FERAX E. & E. On dead wood, Canada (Macoun). Thin, 
farinaceous, white, immarginate, soon developing in the central parts 
! Edited by Prof. C. E. Bessey, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. 
