nevertheless not a common Fungus, nor one easily mistaken. It does not grow upon stumps, fallen branches, 

 &c., as so many of the rigid division of the Polyporus tribe do, wliich circumstance will alone serve 

 instantly to distinguish it from most others. The accompanying drawing was made from a Polyporua 

 perennis more than usually handsome, and larger than any which authors have hitherto described; many 

 as fine occupied the same slope of peaty sand, covered by tall heath, under a dense umbrage of old oaks. 

 The spot has been cleared a good deal, and we have since sought our friend in vain. 



