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Hydnum ochraceum Pers. [Steccherihum ochraceum (Pers.> 
Gray]. Common. On decayed limbs, Perry’s woods, December, Al- 
goma. 
Hydimrn imlcherrimum B. & C. [Steccherinum pulcherrimum 
(B. & C.) Banker]. Young plants are pure white, sessile, sometimes 
imbricate. A white milk exudes from wounded portions. This piilk 
later becomes sticky and hardens, changing to reddish purple. Older 
plants are yellowish, turning reddish in drying. Pieces of wood are 
usually attached to collected specimens. Common on dead oak trees, 
birch stumps, and on living maple. Mile Bluff, June, Mauston; Otto’s 
woods, September, Algoma. 
Hydnum repandum L. Common. On the ground under beech, 
maple, etc., Schmeiling’s, June to August, Algoma. 
Hydnum septentrionale Fr. [ Steccherinum septentrionale (Fr.) 
Banker], Several pilei are closely imbricated forming a semiglobular 
mass attached at a narrow vertical line. Plants often fall off from the 
place of growth owing to their weight. On dead maple, Tornado, No¬ 
vember, Kohlberg. 
Hydnum velutinum Fr. [ Hydnellum velutinum (Fr.) Banker]. 
The whole plant is soft and spongy, rusty-brown, tomentose. The sub¬ 
stance at the upper portion of the stipe is convex-transversely zoned. 
The deformed and spongy stipe is well figured by Gillet, Champ. France, 
PI. 324, Pat., Tab. An., fig. 617, Bull., Hist. Champ., PI. 453. Sometimes 
referred to H. spongiosipes Peck. Common. Under pines, Detjen’s 
woods, September, Algoma. 
Irpex fuscescens Schw. (Irpex cinnamomeus Fr.) Common. On 
dead alder, willow, etc. Perry’s swamp, Algoma. 
Irpex lacteus Fr. On stumps, September, Casco. 
Irpex tabacinus B. & C. Almost entirely resupinate, covering 
the end of a large log, Tsuga canadensis. The teeth are long, 4-7 mm., 
whitish, seriate. The color of the plant is dark tobacco brown. Krohn’s 
lake, August, Algoma. 
Irpex tulipiferae Schw. On small dead limbs of various decidu¬ 
ous trees, Stony Creek, October, Algoma. 
Phlebia merismoides Fr. The spores are subglobose, smooth, 
white, minute, 3-4 microns. On under side of deciduous log. Detjen’s 
swamp, April, Algoma. 
Plilebia radiata Fr. Some forms do not show the radiating struc¬ 
ture of the folds. Common. On decayed logs,, Ihlenfelds’ woods, Sep¬ 
tember, Algoma. 
