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cracked into minute, furfuraceous areolae ; stem quarter of an inch high, 

 lateral, dilated above, pruinose, yellowish when dry ; pores one 

 hundredth of an inch in diameter, dirty white, angular, often elongated, 

 edge of dissepiments uneven and toothed. This curious species 

 exactly resembles Panics stypticus, with the exception of the hymen- 

 ium. I know of no species to which it has a close affinity. 



Polyporus sulphureus, Fr. — Wa} r nesville.* 



Polyporus hypococcinus, n. sp. — On rotten trunks. Waynesville. 

 Sept. 7, 1844. 



Pileo subungulato, carnoso-suberoso, intus fibroso zonatoque, in- 

 equabile, exalutaceo-aurantiaco, incano, subtiliter tomentoso ; poris 

 parvis, longis, e pileo secernibilibus, aurantiis, intus coccineis. 



Pileus several inches across, subungulate or expanded, of a soft 

 coriaceous or corky substance, uneven, buff and orange, becoming whit- 

 ish when dry, very minutely tomentose ; substance pale buff (some- 

 times pink when dry), consisting of fibres which radiate from the base 

 and are crossed by concentric zones: hymenium bright crimson orange ; 

 pores one seventieth of an inch broad, an inch long, crimson within; 

 edge of dissepiments orange, slightly thickened and flexous, separable 

 from the flesh, and partially from each other. This magnificent species 

 approaches, in some Respects, the genus Fistulina, but the pores, 

 though partially separable, are those of a Polyporus. Its situation is 

 amongst the Anodermei. 



Polyporus molliusculus, n. sp. — Cincinnati. 



Imbricatus; pileis effuso-reflexis, sublobatis, leviter zonatis, albis 

 zonis strigis mollibus sparsis ornatis ; contextu albo; poris mediis, 

 pallidis. 



Imbricated, thin, four inches or more long, three inches broad, some- 

 times perfectly resupinate, more generally with the border, broadly re- 

 flected and slightly lobed, white finely silky, or nearly smooth, with 

 zones of soft strigae, which, in the dried plant are perfectly innate ; 

 substance white, thin corky when dry; pores one forty-eighth of an 

 inch broad, at first entire with thick dissepiments, at length lacerated 

 and elongated, wood colored. Resembling in general appearance 

 Polyporus alutaceus, as figured by Rostkovius, but much thinner. 

 I can not refer it to any described species. Its position is amongst the 

 white Anodermei. 



* The specimens are very thin and extremely beautiful. 



