Polyporacese 



geous in color and conspicuous in design. Resting upon the ground or Poiyporus. 

 reared against the base of tree or stump, they deceive by their likeness 

 to gaudy bouquets, left by foreign picnickers. In quality it is the same 

 as P. sulphureus. It does not, however, retain its edibility. As it ages 

 it becomes offensive. 



P. por'ipes Fr. porous-stemmed. PileilS 1-5-3 in. broad, rather 

 fleshy, sinuately repand, smooth, grayish-brown. Stem central or ex- 

 centric, firm, smooth, 1.5-3 m - l n g 4-6 lines thick, punctuated by 

 the whitish decurrent pores. 



On earth in hilly regions. 



Cap 2 in. across, light drab, smooth, slightly furfuraceous toward 

 center, broken into minute appressed squamules, zoned. Flesh fibrous, 

 white-pliable. Tubes very shallow, round mouths with obtuse divisions, 

 china-white, running down to base of stem. Stem eccentric, almost 

 lateral, entirely surrounded by pores, connate at base, ) in. thick. 



Smell pleasant. 



New York. Ground. August, Peck, Rep. 24; Mt. Gretna, Pa., 

 August to November, Mcllvaine. A large tufted species growing on 

 the ground in woods, August to November, Mcllvaine. 



When raw tastes like the best chestnuts or filberts, but rather too dry 

 cooked. Curtis. 



It must be chopped fine and slowly cooked. 



P. immi'tis Pk. wide, rude. Pilei cespitose-imbricated, broad, 

 slightly convex or flattened, more or less rough or uneven, radiately- 

 wrinkled, tuberculose or fibrous-bristled, zoneless, white, becoming 

 tinged with yellow or alutaceous in drying. Flesh white, slightly fibrous, 

 soft and moist when fresh, cheesy when dry, with a subacid odor. Pores 

 minute, angular or even subflexuous, about equal in length to the thick- 

 ness of the pileus, the dissepiments thin, white, often at length dentate 

 or lacerate on the edge. Spores minute, white, elliptical, 3-4x18-20^. 



Pilei 2-4 in. broad, the flesh commonly 3-4 lines thick. 



Decaying ash trunks. East Berne. August. 



The species is apparently related to P. caesareus, but the character of 

 the pores is quite different in the two species. Peck, 35th Rep. N. Y. 

 State Bot. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa. On dead black oak. August to November, 1898. 



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