Panus AGARICACE/E 3 1 1 



rudimentary. G. extended to base, subdistant, somewhat 

 thick, whitish or faintly shaded as P. 

 Imbricate. Old trees, stumps, trunks ; rare. Feb. Diam. 2| in. 



LIV. PANUS Fr. 

 (A name given to an arboreal fungus by Pliny.) 



Veil obsolete. Pileus fibrous, fleshy-coriaceous. Stem lateral or 

 none, when present confluent with the hymenophore. Gills entire, 



A 



Fig. 68. A, section of Panns torulosus Fr. One-half 

 natural size. B, section of P. stypticus Fr. ; c, ditto, 

 P. paicllaris Fr. Natural size. 



concrete with the hymenophore, at length coriaceous, edge acute, 



not serrate. Spores white. (Fig. 68.) 



Growing on stumps and lasting long. Species 1442 1447 



Pileus irregular. Stem excentric. 1442, 1443 



Stem lateral. 1444, 1445 



Pileus resupinate, sessile or extended behind. 1446, 1447 



1442. P. eonchatus Fr. (from the shape, like certain shells ; concha, a 



shell) a b c. 



P. more or less dimidiate, deeply depressed, fleshy, pliant, thin, 

 cinnamon or brownish-yellow, pale sienna-scaly in old examples. 

 St. solid, equal or attenuate downwards, brownish-yellow. 

 G. deeply decurrent, narrow, whitish or pale flesh-colour, at 

 length yellowish. 



Crespitose, often imbricate. Trunks, stumps, beech, poplar, lime ; rare. 

 June-Oct. 4^ x f X $ in. Stem sometimes branching. 



1443. P. torulosus Fr. (from the hairy down on the stem ; tornlus, a 



tuft of hair) a b c. 



P. entire, plane to infundibuliform, compactly fleshy, even, 

 smooth, brownish-yellow, buff or rufescent-livid, sometimes 

 minutely sienna-scaly. St. solid, equal, oblique, grey, violaceous 

 or buff-downy. G. deeply decurrent, subdistant, reddish, tan 

 or yellowish. 



Crespitose. Old trunks, stumps, ash, birch, willow, oak ; frequent. 

 May- Aug. 3! x ij X f in. 



