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Scutiger radicatus (Schw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 30 : 430. 1903.
Polyporus radicatus Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4 : 155. 1832.
Polyporus Morgani Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 32 : 34. 1879. (Type from Ohio.) Polyporus kansensis KHis & Earth. P^rythea 4:1. 1896. (Type from Kansas, on a decayed trunk ) 'i Polyporus hispidellus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 52 : 649. 1899.
Pileus solitary, fleshy, convex or plane, circular in outline, depressed at the center, 10
cm. broad, 5-9 mm. thick ; surface tomentose, subsquamulose, brown or reddish-brown ;
m.argin thin, concolorous, incurved when dry: context soft, spongj^, white, homogeneous
3-6 mm. thick; tubes decurrent, short, white to isabelline, mouths subcircular, 2-3 to a
mm., edges thin, white or yellowish, entire: spores ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline
6-8 X 5 /i; basidia 6-8^ thick: stipe central, fusiform, cylindrical above, expanding into
the pileus, elastic, solid, velvety, reticulate, pale-fulvous, black and rooting below.
Type locality : Pennsylvania.
Habitat : In woody earth or on much-decayed wood about stumps or dead trunks.
Distribution : Ontario to Pennsylvania and west to Kansas.
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William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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