POLVPORCS EARLEI II. sp.
Mesopous; terrestrial ; stem 4-5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. or more thick, colored like the pileus; pileus 7-12 cm. each way, cinereous, slightly darker towards the centre ; margin very thin, much in curved in drying ; context soft-fleshy, grayish, drying to a thin layer; pores 1-2 mm. deep, somewhat whitish-stuffed when young, cinereous gray, paler when young and, towards the mar gin, small (less than o.5 mm.), the dissepiments rather firm, entire.
Pine woods, Auburn, Alabama, Nov., 1896. Prof. F. S. Earle.
The plant is cinereous throughout and retains this color when dry. It gives me great pleasure to associate with this plant, the name of my former genial co-laborer and companion in many " fungus forays," who is contributing largely to our knowledge of mycology in a much neglected section of the Union.