iu their involved patterns and minute development. B. hiennis gro«s on the ground from the buried 

 roots of trees, not uj)oii the timber, and is sometimes very handsome with a number of pileated fronds, and 

 confluent stems ; at others a shapeless irregular mass, involving twigs and blades of grass in its effused mass. 

 B. unicolor grows on stakes &c., as Polyporm versicolor docs, and in extreme youth may be taken for it; but 

 the adult Beedalia \\z& small, tiexuous, maze-like divisions teneath, having lost the distinct pores, like pin- 

 holes, which the Pofj/porns always retahis near the margins, how ragged and jagged soever age and insect 

 devastations may ha\e rendered the central portions. 



None of the small JJaihifias are of any use that we are aware of, and probably possess no active qualities. 

 B. unicolor on being broken across in the middle of December, invariably contained two or three maggots, 

 as large as plump grains of wheat, in each pileus, not of greater dimensions than a shilluig ; under the convex 

 velvet tile, they had a safe and warm winter roof, l)ut not much spare room. It is very diflicult to get a 

 section of B. unicohir, not injured by the gnawing of these larvae. 



