336 POLYPORACE.^E Polyporus 



toothed, at length torn as in Irfiex, white, yellow, then greenish. 

 Flesh white, clouded pale sulphur. 

 Woods, mixed, under Finns sylvestris. Sept. 3i X 2§ X ^ in. 



1518. P. leueomelas Fr. (from the colours ; Gr. leukos, white, me/as, 



black) a. 



P. expanded, thick, subfragile, slightly silky-squamulose, dark 

 olive-umber or blackish fuliginous. St. equal to unequal, sub- 

 tomentose, yellow-umber or as P. T. decurrent. Po. large, 

 short, unequal, white to cinereous, black when dry. Flesh 

 white, changing to faintest rufous-purplish or black. 



Woods, fir. Sept. 5^ X £ X I in. 



b. Lenta. 



1519. P. lentus Berk, (from the tough-pliant substance • lentus, tough) 



a b c. 



P. umbilicate, thin, minutely scaly, buff-white, shaded buff, 



ochreous or reddish-brown. St. equal, hispid or furfuraceous, 



colour as P., shaded sienna-buff. T. decurrent, long, large, 



unequal, yellowish-white. Po. toothed. 



Dead roots and branches, furze, hawthorn; frequent. April -Sept. 

 2 X I X \ in. 



1520. P. brumalis Fr. (from the time of growth ; bruma, winter) a be. 

 P. convexo- expanded, very thin, villous to squamulose and 



smooth, rich cinnamon to umber or slate-umber ; marg. paler. 



St. equal, minutely dark-umber-tioccose on a pale brown 



ground, when young brown-ochre above, ochre below. T. 



decurrent, very shallow, white, becoming yellow. Po. toothed. 



Flesh white. 



Woods, on dead branches, sticks, hazel, birch, beech, sometimes on the 

 ground ; frequent. 2 x 2 J x T % in. 



1520a. P. areularius Fr. (arcularius, a casket-maker ; in reference to 

 the fulvous pores, covered by the pileus — as if in a casket) a. 

 P. pliant, then coriaceous, somewhat umbilicate, zoneless, orange- 

 brown, in the first year covered with -fuscous sq., in the second 

 glabrous with a yellow strigose margin. St. somewhat squamu- 

 lose. greyish-fuscous or sooty-brown. T. oblong. Po. rhom- 

 boidal, thin, rather large, entire, whitish then fulvous. Flesh 

 white. 



Dead twigs. Sept. Varying from f x \ X ^ in. to 2£ x \\ X \ in. Distin- 

 guished from 1520 by the shape of the pores, the strigose margin and 

 fuscous squamules of the pileus. 



1521. P. fuseidulus Fr. (from the somewhat fuscous pileus) a. 



P. convexo-plane, very thin, leathery, pale yellowish-brown or 

 pale olive-brown. St. equal, smooth, pale yellowish-olive. T. 

 adnato-decurrent, somewhat long, warm yellowish-white. 



Woods, chips ; rare. 2j x if X \ in. 



