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Polyporus Flavo-Squamosus

yellowish

POLYPORUS FLAVO-SQUAMOSUS n. Sp.

Pleuropous ; terrestrial ; stem 7-8 cm. long, 4-5 cm. thick, slightly flattened, irregularly roughened, colored like the pileus ; pileus 15 cm. each way, yellowish, with a slight tinge of greenish ; covered with rather small floccose imbricate scales, which form a very thin fragile crust, channeled behind where the edges nearly meet ; margin rather acute, more or less incurved in drying ; con text white or slightly yellowish, fleshy, firm, becoming almost woody when dry ; pores 5 mm. deep, rather large (about 1

irregular, angular, with thin dissepiments, slightly decurrent, white, changing to greenish where wounded, yellowish when dry ; spores oval or ovoid, 9 x 6 it, with a single large highly refractive gutta.

Growing in clayey soil, Auburn, Alabama, 23 Nov., 1896. Mrs. F. S. Earle.