130 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



lateral, spathulate, dimidiate, etc., papillate at first, then smootli, 

 spotted with red. Sessile. Base short, thick, lateral, woody. 



Pores. Convex, huffish or salmon-pink, dotted with rosy papillae, 

 viscid. 



Section. Flesh very thick, red, marbled, soft like meat, jnicy. 

 Tubes short, reddish, continuous with flesh, minute, unequal. 

 Odour slightly vinous. Taste obscurely acid and vinous. Spores 

 salmon-pink. 



Ohs. In chapter vii. Most excellent, either for the cottage or the palace 

 of Dives \—W. I). II. 



Genus POLY PO BUS. 



(175.) POLYPORUS CORYLINUS ; The Roman Stump-sprout. 



Habitat. On charred stumps of a species of hazel (Corylus 

 avellana), a native of Italy. In tufts. 



Season. Autumn and winter. Exotic. 



Filetis. One to three inches across, buff- white, smooth, dry ; 

 expanded, unequal, plane, uneven. Margin incurved, then undu- 

 late, thin. 



Stem. One inch high, whitish, thick, continuous, cylindrical, 

 nearly central, unequal, incrassate, reticulate, naked. 



Pores. Tint of pileus, small, even. 



Section. Flesh white, thick, compact. Stem solid. Tubes 

 whitish, short. Odour slight. Taste bland. 



Obs. It may be cultivated anywhere in hothouses, upon its particular 

 matrix. See chapter xi. — W. D. H. 



(176.) POLYPORUS CRISTATUS ; The Crested Polypore. 



Habitat. On the ground in old beech woods. Singly. 



Season. September to November. Rare. 



Habit. A clump of fragile, fleshy branches, rising from a 

 common base or trunk. The Pilei are three to four inches across, 

 tawny-green, entire or dimidiate, depressed, irregular, imbricate ; 

 sub-pulverulent or tomentose, eventually rimoso-squamose. Mar- 

 gins involute. The Stems are long and short, white, then greenish, 

 iiTegular, latei-al, farinose. Pores white, then yellowish, minute, 

 angular, unequal, torn. Odour slight. Taste rather acrid. 



Ohs. Very scarce here ; I have not seen it. Fries says it is esculent, and 

 BO does Curtis.— jr. U. U. 



