Parvus 



AGARICACEiE 



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rudimentary. G. extended to base, subdistant, somewhat 

 thick, whitish or faintly shaded as P. 

 Imbricate. Old trees, stumps, trunks ; rare. Feb. Diam. 2§ in. 



LIV. PANUS Fr. 



(A name given to an arboreal fungus by Pliny.) 



Veil obsolete. Films fibrous, fleshy-coriaceous. Stem lateral or 

 none, when present confluent with the hymenophore. Gills entire, 



Fig. 68. — a, section of Panus torulosus Fr. One-half 

 natural size. b, section of P. styfitiacs Fr. ; c, ditto, 

 P. patellaris Fr. Natural size. 



concrete with the hymenophore, at length coriaceous, edge acute, 

 not serrate. Spores white. (Fig. 68.) 



Growing on stumps and lasting long. Species 1442 — 1447 



Pileus irregular. Stem excentric. 1442, 1443 



Stem lateral. 1444, 1445 



Pileus resupinate, sessile or extended behind. 1446, 1447 



1442. P. eonehatus Fr. (from the shape, like certain shells ; concha, a 



shell) a b c. 



P. more or less dimidiate, deeply depressed, fleshy, pliant, thin, 



cinnamon or brownish-yellow, pale sienna-scaly in old examples. 



St. solid, equal or attenuate downwards, brownish-yellow. 



G. deeply decurrent, narrow, whitish or pale flesh-colour, at 



length yellowish. 



Ccespitose, often imbricate. Trunks, stumps, beech, poplar, lime ; rare. 

 June-Oct. 4^ x f X £ in. Stem sometimes branching, 



1443. P. torulosus Fr. (from the hairy down on the stem ; torulus, a 



tuft of hair) a b c. 



P. entire, plane to infundibuliform, compactly fleshy, even, 



smooth, brownish-yellow, buff or rufescent-livid, sometimes 



minutely sienna-scaly. St. solid, equal, oblique, grey, violaceous 



or buff-downy. G. deeply decurrent, subdistant, reddish, tan 



or yellowish. 



Crespitose. Old trunks, stumps, ash, ^birch, willow, oak ; frequent. 

 May- Aug. 3! x \\ X £ in. 



