1064 General Notes. [ j 
{not certainly known as North American). 51. 7. microcephalum Pursh, € rege ‘oe 
and California. Paor 
Section VII. EULAGOPUS. ee 
52. T. macrai Hook. (7. albopurpureum Torr, & Gr.), Western North Am 
53. T. neolagopus Loja. (hitherto included under the preceding species), Calif 
The introduced species, which are often subsea 
l ariu i 
' oF, 
procumbens Schreb., T. repens Linn. It will be remembered ! ha he 
Dr. Gray says of the last in his Manual, “ Here probably | 
duced, but indigenous northward.” j 
bladed knife, I cut away the specimen. It prove 
septentrionale Fr., measuring one foot across, an 
pounds. The mass consisted of about six hori 3 
above another, an inch or more thick, entirely free and $ at 
from each other, except that they all proceeded from 
fleshy layer, which was firmly attached to the wood 
the fungus grew. The teeth which cover the lower surk 
horizontal layers are cylindrical, awl-sha rocess? =a 
inch long or more, their extremities at first truncate with 
perfect fringe of short hairs, but the tips at length become 
The whole is of a dull yellowish-white color and 
hand, of the numerous imens of Polyporus ob 
389) growing on partly dea trunks of oak trees id 
I have never seen but a single specimen that I coui £ 
reach standing on the ground. Trametes pint also T 
found near the ground, though occasionally a 
fifteen or twenty feet from the ground growing from 
place in the standing trunk. 
It may be remarked that as a rule the large Pol i 
nums that grow on standing trunks, are found not ! 
