Murrill: Polyporaceae of Jamaica 185 



Found only at high elevations in Jamaica. Abundant in the 



eastern United States north of Florida. 



Chester Vale, ^44; Cinchona, 6j6; New Haven Gap, /jd. 



Tribe POLYPOREAE 



Abortiporus tropicalis sp. nov. 



Pileus distorted, spatulate to reniform, laterally stipitate, tough, 

 flexible, becoming almost rigid when dry, 1-2 X 2.5-3 X 0.2-0.4 

 cm. ; surface spongy, finely tomentose, uneven, plane or depressed, 

 rosy-ochraceous, anoderm; margin white, becoming reddish- 

 brown when bruised, undulate to lobed, sterile: context white, 

 duplex, with a firmer layer next to the tubes; tubes short, white 

 within, mouths minute, invisible to the unaided eye, somewhat 

 glistening, white, edges firm, obtuse to subacute, entire: spores 

 globose, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline, copious, 4.5-6 /a: stipe as- 

 cending, expanding into the pileus, sometimes branched at the 

 base, very irregular, cremeous, clothed like the pileus, tapering 

 below, about 3 cm. long and 5-10 mm. thick. 



Type collected in Hope Gardens, Jamaica, 200 m., attached to 

 the base of a small dead stump, January 9-10, 1909, W. A. 

 Murrill 836. 



Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) Karst. Medd. Soc. Faun. Fl. 

 Fenn. 5 : 38. 1879. All the specimens from the Cockpit 

 Country and one collection from Chester Vale (348) represent 

 a small form, quite different from the usual form of temperate 

 regions, which latter I have from Chester Vale and Cinchona. 

 Castleton Gardens, /8; Chester Vale, joj, 348; Cockpit 



Country, 8po, 9/5, p/z/. 



Cerrenella farinacea (Fries) Murrill, N. Am. Flora 9: 74. 

 1908. 



Chester Vale, jc^>^; Cinchona, 412; Cockpit Country, 844. 

 Coltricia spathulata (Hook.) Murrill, N. Am. Flora 9: 93. 



1908. Abundant in a grove on a southern slope. 



Cockpit Country, p62, 1034, lo^p. 

 CoRiOLELLUs Sepium (Berk.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 



481. 1905. This species is represented in Jamacia and Cuba 



by a darker, more irregular, and less reflexed form than the 



typical one of the eastern United States. 



Chester Vale, 2/4; Morce's Gap, d/p. 



