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4. Panus tomentosus, Bundy. 
Pilens V —H' wide, rather fleshy, becoming tough, depressed, nearly 
plane in some specimens, subinfundibuliform, dull yellowish, merging 
into purple, tomentous, outer zone densely covered with tawny hairs; 
margins incurved; gills narrow, decurrent, white, at first tinged with 
purplish; stem excentric, short, thicker below, densely covered with 
tawny hairs, P—IF high. Ironton, July, on oak logs. Geology of Wis¬ 
consin, Yol. I, p. 398, 1883. Name, tomentum , a stuffing for cushions 
(wool, hair, etc.), from the hairs on the pileus. 
* * 5. Panus stipticus, Fr. 
Pileus F —V broad, cinnamon, becoming pale, acrid, thin, but not 
membranaceous, reniform, pruinose, the cuticle separating into furfur- 
aceous scales; stem not reaching P long, solid, definitely lateral, com¬ 
pressed, dilated upwards, ascending, pruinose, paler than the gills; gills 
ending determinately (not decurrent), thin, very narrow, crowded, ele¬ 
gantly connected by veins, cinnamon; gregarious csespitose, remarkable 
for its astringent taste. The pileus sometimes has an infundibuliform 
appearance with lobes all round. On stumps; common. Reckoned poi¬ 
sonous spores obovoid-sphseroid, 2—3 x 1—2 mk 3 x 4 mk. W. G. S. 
Stevenson, British Fungi, Yol. II, p. 160. This has been found in New 
England by C. J. Sprague; South Carolina, Ravenel; Amherst, Mass., C. 
C. Frost; Florida, Calkins; New York, Peck, 33d Rep., p. 36, who says it 
“usually occurs on trunks of deciduous trees, but occasionally it is found 
on hemlock trunks;” Ohio, Morgan; Kansas, Cragin; Louisiana, Lang- 
lois. Ellis has distributed it in his third Cent. N. A. F. It is very com¬ 
mon. Name, stypticus , astringent. 
6. Panus farinaoeus, Schum. 
Pileus cinnamon-umber, somewhat coriaceous, flexuous, cuticle sepa¬ 
rating into whitish bluish-grey scurf; stem short, lateral, of the same 
color as the pileus; gills determinately free, distinct, paler. The habit is 
that of P. stipticus. Stevenson, British Fungi, Vol. II, p. 160. Morgan, 
the only American writer who mentions this species (Mycologic Flora 
Miami Yalley, Ohio), writes: “The pileus is brown or blackish, with a 
dense white pubescence. What I have found grew out of the cracks in 
the hickory bark.” Nam e, farina, meal, from the scurf on the pileus. 
7. Panus lasvis, B. & C. 
Pileus 3' broad, orbicular, slightly depressed, white, clothed in the 
center with long, intricate, villous, rather delicate hairs, which are shorter 
and more matted towards the inflected margin, substance rather thin; 
stipe 3' long, F thick, attenuated upwards, generally excentric, sometimes 
lateral, not rooting, solid, strigose below, closely villous like the margin 
of pileus; gills rather broad, entire, decurrent, but not to a great degree; 
the interstices even above, behind clothed with the same coat as the top 
of the stem; spores white. A most distinct species, remarkable for its 
great lightness when dry and the long villous but not compressed, 
compound flocci of the pileus. Sometimes the center of the pileus be- 
