Murrill : Light-colored Resupinate Polypores 99 



spores allantoid, hyaline, 10-12 x 3.5 /x." This collection was 

 made on dead limbs of Pinus austriaca at Newfield on Christmas 

 day. Four other packets collected by Ellis on pine at Newfield 

 bear as many different dates, and three are referred by him to 

 Porta violacea. 



The following specimens resemble those of the above species, 

 but prove to be undeveloped resupinate forms of Tyromyces 

 Smallii Murrill : 



Auburn, Alabama, Earlc, on pine bark ; Newfield, New Jersey, 

 Ellis, on old pine stump. 



71. Poria subviolacea Ellis & Ev. Am. Nat. 31: 339. 1897 



Described from specimens collected by Ellis on decaying white 

 oak limbs buried beneath decaying leaves at Newfield, New Jer- 

 sey, in September and October, 1896. I find only one packet so 

 labeled in the Ellis Collection and it is practically destroyed by 

 insects. Its date is October 1, while the description was drawn 

 from specimens (which I do not find) collected on the same host, 

 October 17. Ellis says that the hymenium is more or less tinged 

 with violet or lilac at first, changing mostly to dirty-white or yel- 

 lowish-white on drying. I imagine that the affinities of the species 

 are- rather with some of the thin, white forms previously studied 

 than with the present group. 



72. Poria Caryae (Schw.) Cooke, Grevillea 14: in. 1886 



This species was treated in Mycologia for March, 1920. The 

 specimens mentioned there as Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2306, 

 collected by Calkins in Florida, seem to be incorrectly determined 

 and belong nearer to the Poria vincta group. Other good speci- 

 mens found in the Ellis Herbarium are as follows : 



Ohio, Morgan 229. This is probably a part of the same col- 

 lection sent to Underwood in 1894, which has already been cited. 



London, Canada, on beech, by Dearness 1343, December 6, 

 1889. 



I have already referred to specimens collected by me on beech 

 in northern Maine. 

 Kansas, Cragin 193. 



