404 Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. . 



Fasciculated. Pileus ^-1 inch across, depressed and wrinkled 

 in the centre, opake, tough, cream-coloured, stained with vinous 

 red, especially when bruised ; flesh white, thin. Stem 1-2 inches 

 high, hollow, twisted, white and mealy above, quite smooth and 

 shining below, of a rich light nut-brown. Gills few and distant, 

 rather broad, of the same colour as the pileus. Taste and smell 

 exactly like that of M. oreades. 



^Marasmius Hudsoni, Fr. The whole of the outer surface of 

 the pileus is clothed with echinulate processes, and the spores are 

 fusiform, '0004 inch long, with a central nucleus, very different 

 from those of any other Agaric or Marasmius. 



Plate XV. fig. 3. a. Echinulate processes and base of a hair; h. young 

 hair ; c. spores. All highly magnified. 



709. Polyporus (Pleuropus) Rostkovii, Fr. Ep. p. 439. On 

 the dead stump of a tree, Apethorpe, Norths., June 16, 1853. 



Thin, flaccid, 6 inches across, infundibuliform, but often lateral, 

 smooth, even, pale ochraceous, mottled below with darker spots 

 and virgate, dark brown at the base, margin lobed, involute. 

 Flesh white, tough. Stem connate, black, tough, reticulate from 

 the decurrent pores. Pores large, 2 lines or more long, elongated ; 

 edge obtuse, or very thin and torn. Spores with two nuclei, 

 •0005 inch long, -0002 broad, narrower than in P. squamosus, 

 to which it is closely allied. 



710. P. (Anodermei) fragilis, Fr. El. i. p. 86. On dead fir 

 trees, Penzance, J. Ralfs, Esq. 



711. P. (Anodermei) adiposus, n. s. Albus; pileo ceraceo- 

 molli breviter reflexo vario obscure tomentoso ; hymenio crassius- 

 culo ; poris parvis acie obtusis. On the ground amongst Mar- 

 chantia, Twycross, Nov. 1851, Rev. A. Bloxam. 



Very variable in form, sometimes fixed by the apex, sometimes 

 resupinate, white, waxy, thickish when fresh, but losing much 

 of its substance in age, here and there acquiring a foxy tinge, 

 substance not zoned within. Pores when horizontal with the 

 edges even, but often elongated and irregular, not stratose. Sur- 

 face scarcely tomentose, uneven. Turning brownish in drying. 



Allied to P. amorphiis, but a very distinct species. 



^D{Bdalea confragosa, Fr. On willow, Apethorpe, Norths., 

 Jan. 1853. 



It appears to us very doubtful whether Trametes ruhescens be 

 really distinct ; but if so, there is no doubt that Bolton's plant and 

 the English specimens, amongst which is Boletus angustatus, 

 Sow. t. 193, as appears from the original specimens, all belong to 

 the same plant with that of Schweinitz. The resupinate plant on 

 oak, which we supposed, from the inspection of named specimens, 

 to be Merulius rufus, Pers., is probably only a form of this species. 

 It appears to be the same with P. hathyporuSy Rostk. 



