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“Hymenophore very large, but of light weight, annual epixy- 
lous, sessile, dimidiate, thick and pulvinate; surface pelliculose, 
glabrous, azonate, margin very obtuse; context very thick, soft 
and spongy throughout; tubes small, dark-colored, thin-walled, 
fragile; spores smooth, hyaline.” 
[See Tornophagus Murr.\ 
[ Basidiomycetae. ] 
Earliella Murrill n. g. Polyporaceae. Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club, 321478. 1905. 
“Hymenophore medium to large, annual, epixylous, semi- 
resupinate, thin and red but rigid; surface pelliculose, glabrous, 
zonate, more or less reddish-brown in color; context white, coria¬ 
ceous, zonate; hymenium flesh-colored, tubes medium, irregular, 
becoming thin-walled; spores smooth, hyaline.” 
[ Basidiomycetae. ] 
Flaviporellus Murrill n. g. Polyporaceae. Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club, 32:485. 1905. 
“Hymenophore small, annual, epixylous, sessile or substipi- 
tate, flabelliform, yellow throughout; surface anoderm, margin 
thin; context very thin and friable; tubes small, thin-walled, 
fragile; spores smooth, hyaline or yellowish.” 
[Basidiomycetae.] 
Flaviporus Murrill n. g. Polyporaceae. Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club, 32:360. 1905. 
“Hymenium annual, often reviving, epixylous, sessile, dimi¬ 
diate, imbricate; surface encrusted, glabrous; context thick, 
woody, brown; tubes thin-walled, minute, regular; spores smooth, 
hyaline.” 
[Basidiomycetae.] 
Fomitella Murrell n. g. Polyporaceae. Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club, 32:365. 1905. 
“Hymenium sessile, at times semi-resupinate, applanate, 
epixylous; surface glabrous, anoderm to encrusted, sulcate with 
age ; context woody or slightly punky, brownish-olivaceous, rarely 
varying to pallid; tubes minute, cylindrical, usually thick-walled, 
rarely stratose; spores smooth, hyaline.” 
[Basidiomycetae.] 
Gastrosporium Mattirolo 11. g. Lycoperdales. Memorie 
della Reale Accademie Scienze di Torino, II. 53:361. 1903. 
“II Gastrosporium, come indica il nome, e formato da una 
cavita ripiena di innumeravoli minutissime spore, limita da una 
parete doppia.” 
“II corpo fruttifero globoso-lobato e di color bianco latteo, 
di grossezza che varia da quella di un pisello a quella di una noce, 
misurando il pin grosso esemplare esaminato un diametro di circa 
tre cent.” 
“11 Peridio e formato da due strati nettamente differenziati.” 
