flow ; in such places it runs out over the baak among the sticks and weeds, and would puzzle the tyro 

 greatly. Soft as it looks, it is after a time extremely tough, and you can quite as easily divide the wood it 

 grows from, as itself. Occasionally, when produced higher up in trees, the pileus is very compact, 

 rounded in a dimidiate style, with smooth buff margin, bright bay pileus, and most minute pores of a hue 

 rather redder than nankeen, particularly clean and dehcate. The mass of pores is never plane, but swelling 

 in gentle protuberances. The smell of this Polyporus is disagreeable. Perhaps it would make Amadou ; 

 Pries places it among the Pomentarii ; the corky inner substance is at all times pure white. Its rarity is 

 its great recommendation to the Mycologist. With regard to our portrait we have a word to say; a critic, a 

 better judge of art than of fungi, objected to the drawing that it is uncertain and " indktinct in character;" 

 as that is precisely the character of the Polyporus, it is complimentary instead of the reverse ; but as other 

 criticisms of the same kind may be made, this fact is stated in order to meet them. 



The colouring of Sowerb/s figure is quite improper, but the outhne (his own performance) correct ; 

 he seems to have had very ill luck in his coloiu' in several instances, even allowing for fading &;c. 



