POLYPORUS RETIPES n. sp.
Terrestrial ; stem excentric, 4-6 cm. long, 2 cm or more thick, yellowish-white towards the base ; pileus 6-15 cm. each way, brown, appressed tomentose, finely areolate-rimose so as to appear finely mottled ; context fleshy, rather thick (2 cm. or more) be coming quite thin in drying, whitish ; margin acute ; pores de current half the length of the stem, shallow, whitish, large (1.5
mm. or more), mostly hexagonal, the dissepiments thin and finely lacerate.
The young pores are very shallow and the stem appears reticu late-veined nearly to the base. As the pores become older they deepen and those nearest the base of the stem become more or less obscured.
In pine woods, Auburn, Alabama, Dec., 1896. Mrs. F. S.
Earle.