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Boletus Satanus, Lenz.
+540. Polyporus. Pileus one inch thick,
convex, dirty white or clay color;
Pores red, small. Stipe ½ in. thick,
dirty white. Earth woods. Aug.
+541. Boletus Summer.
++542. Vegetans
Uredo sphericis? On Digitalis
via sanguinalis or filif. Sept.
+543. Stemomitis fusca. Browed,
blackish-brown, cylindrical - Stipe
black, hardly continued to the summit
Peridium beneath rotten log. June.
544. Collema Bark of Populus aquatica, viv.
Pusla
Aspergillus, m. lfs.
+545: Ascophora Maceds. White, becoming
dark brown. On Cucurbita verruc.
negrocana.
+546. Sphaeria. Rocks & stones in
old fields.
Berkeleyii? selfflowered,
++547. Polyporus This a sent to me,
& I know not locality; Probably
upon share & dead tree. It was
composed of two opposite parts +550. High up living Oaks. white.
like 1 largest sent, & two or three Perfor crispus, B&C.
smaller perfect ones, & one in: spec. young Aug.
perfect. Color yellowish white. Uredo candida.
Much shrunk in drying. July. +551. Caeoma on fol. Condruetus
panduratus,
fomentarius, Fr.
+548. Polyporus Base & stumps &
decaying trees. Common.
Pol. Curtisii, Berk.
+549. Make this to be a form of
548. The marking & coloring of
upper surface varies with age.
sometimes a dirty white, sometimes
with a varnish? red & again both united. Those with a
stipe, & those without, are both
found in the same group on
a stump, according as the fun-
gus happens to be upon a soft
or hard matrix. I have a
single specimen, apparently this species, with a circular pileus
& central stipe 4 in. long, unequal
& of varnished red like 549.
The pileus is dull white on both
sides. It grew on the earth. If
I find another, I will send it.