376 Rev. M. J. Berkeley on Fungi 



free, reflexed, waved, rugose, unequal, rigid, pallid, wood-co- 

 loured, zoned, very obscurely silky. Substance hard, pallid ; 

 margin very acute. Tubes very slender, stratose ; orifices very 

 minute*, nearly invisible to the naked eye, at first wood-co- 

 loured, then pale gilvous, at length, according to Fries, brown, 

 angular or subrotund : dissepiments very thin, acute. 



This species resembles in many respects Polyporus Aube- 

 rianus, Mont., as the foregoing does Pol. micromegas, Mont. 

 It is allied to Pol. ulmarius. Fries describes this species as 

 zoneless, but the specimen in the British Museum from 

 Swartz is very evidently zoned. Polyporus Auberianus also is 

 sometimes without zones or furrows ; it differs so much in its 

 large size and free development, that, from the inspection of a 

 single specimen only of either species, it would be rash to give 

 too decided opinion as to their identity. 



Plate X. fig. 6. Polyporus microporus, nat. size. 



21. Polyporus scytinus, n. s. Pileis basi effusis lateraliter 

 connatis limbo semiorbiculari coriaceo flexili pallide badio- 

 fusco zonato spongioso-tomentoso ; margine tenui acuto ; poris 

 parvis subirregularibus, dissepimentis subobtusis pileo con- 

 coloribus. Cum. Phil. n. 2031. 



Philippine Islands, Cuming. Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Pilei 3 inches broad, 2^ long, stemless, effused at the base, 

 horizontal, semiorbicular, scarcely lobed, laterally confluent, 

 coriaceous, flexible, of a pallid bay-brown, repeatedly zoned, 

 clothed with short spongy down; edge thin, acute, barren. 

 Substance of the same colour as the pileus, soft, like that of 

 Polyporus foment arius. Pores short, small, ^th of an inch 

 broad, rather irregular, their dissepiments rather obtuse. 



Very much resembling Polyporus caperatus, but not so rigid 

 and the pores are much larger. This species was not in the 

 set described in the e London Journal of Botany 5 from Sir W. 

 J. Hooker's herbarium nor in my own. 



The specific name of Pol. intybaceus, Berk., in 6 Lond. Jour- 

 nal of Botany, 5 a species from the Philippine Islands, being 

 pre-occupied, I beg to substitute for it that of Pol. cichoraceus. 



22. Polyporus Floridanus, n. s. Pallide badius, pileis sub- 

 flabellaribus lateraliter connatis tenuibus coriaceis zonatis pu- 

 bescentibus ; zonis glabrescentibus ; poris parvis irregularibus 

 subdentatis contextu gilvo-badio. 



Eastern Florida, near Matanza. On dead trees. 



Val. Gardner, Esq. Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Pilei forming patches 5 inches or more broad ; the indivi- 

 duals of which they are formed being about 2 inches broad, 

 li long, laterally connate, subflabelliform, very thin, coria- 

 * In the figure they are too strongly expressed. 



