POLYPORUS. 



l8 3 



Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 513. Dicks. Crypt. Brit. t. 3./ 2. Krombh. t. 74./ 12, 

 13. Rostk. t. 38. Quel. t. 16./. 1.— Vent. t. 43./. I, 2. />«•*. Myc. Eur. 2. 

 *. 19. 



Genus XXIII.— Fistulina (fistula, a pipe. From the pipe-like Fistuiina. 

 character of the tubes). Bull. Champ, p. 314- 



Hymenium inferior, at the first dotted over with warts, then 

 protruding cylindrical tubes, which 

 are free and distinct from one an- 

 other. Somewhat fleshy fungi, grow- 

 ing on wood, intermediate between 

 Polyporei a?id Hydnei. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 522. 



LXII. Fistitlina hepatica. One- 

 fifth natural size. Section two 

 times natural size. 



1. F. hepatica Fr. Juicy-fleshy, 

 not rooting. — Pileus entire, blood- 

 red ; flesh thick, soft, viscid above, 

 traversed with tenacious fibres, 

 hence variegated - red. Tubes at 

 first pallid. 



Changeable in form, sessile or extended 

 into a lateral stem. 



On living oak. Common in Eng- 

 land. Aug.-Oct. 



Pileus roundish, dimidiate or subspathulate. Substance thick and juicy, 

 marbled like beet-root, distilling a red pellucid juice ; hymenium convex. 

 Taste rather acid. It attains sometimes an enormous size, even nearly 30 lb. 

 in weight. M.J.B. Spores salmon-colour, nearly round with an oblique 

 apiculus, 3 mk. VV.G.S. Edible and nourishing, but rather coarse, and not 

 of a very pleasant flavour. Known as the beef-steak fungus. Slices exactly 

 like beef-steak. Name — t^ttotucos, of the liver ; diseased in the liver. From 

 its appearance. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 522. Sv. at I. Sv. t. 25. Berk. Out. p. 

 -2S7- t. 17. / 1. C. Hbk. n. 841. S. Mycol. Scot. ?i. 690. Grev. t. 270. 

 Ventur. t. 36./. 1, 2. Barla t. 30./. 4-7. Hogg & Johnst. t. 7. Hussey i. 

 t. 65. Badh. i. t. 12./. 4; ii. t. 12./ 2. Price f. 22.— Huds. Sch&ff. t. 116- 

 120. Bolt. t. 79. Sow. t. 58. Fl. Dan. t. 1039. Bull. t. 74, 464, 497. 



Genus XXIV.— Polyporus. Fr. Obs. Myc. i. p. 121. 

 (ttoXvs, many ; ^6pos, a pore.) 



Hymenophore descending and forming a trama between the 

 pores. Hence the pores are connate with the substance of the 



Polyporus. 



