212 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



attenuated downwards, but tlie base is sometiiucs tuberous, 

 coloured like the pileus ; flesli similarly coloured, rather 

 nauseous ; spores subgloboso-ellipsoid, yellow, G-7 x 4—5 /x. 



Poh/jwrus cinnamomeiis, Saccardo, Michelia, i. p. 362 ; Bre- 

 sadola, Trid., p. 89, t. 99. 



Boletus cinnainomeus, Jacq. Collect, i. p. 116, t. 2. 



On the ground imder trees. Generally solitarj', rarely 

 subcacspitose. Distinct from P. jperennis in the larger 

 pores. 



II. APUS. 



Sessile, dimidiate. 

 * Pileus dark coloured. 



Polystictus versioolor. Fries, (figs. 18, 19, p. 184.) 



Pileus horizontal, thin, coriaceous, rigid, flat, slightly 

 depressed behind, densely velvety, shining, with variously 

 coloured concentric zones ; pores ver^'- short, minute, dissepi- 

 ments acute, becoming torn, white, then very pale buff. 



Polyporus versicolor. Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 368 ; Sowerby, 

 Fung., t. 229. 



On trunks, stumps, branches, &c. Often semicirciilar or 

 flabelliform and imbricated, 2-3 in, across, \ in. thick, mar- 

 gin thinner ; pileus dark green with brown or orange narrow 

 concentric zones, lint colours variable. Hymenium plane, 

 pores white, then cream-colour, often obsolete towards the 

 margin, about \ mm. across. 



Variable ; sometimes quite rcsupinate, or with the margin 

 reflexed ; more generally dimidiate and densely imbricated, 

 occasionally'^ spuriously stipitate, more or less lobed, villous, 

 marked witli regular concentric smooth shining zones of 

 vari(jus colours, sometimes entirely white, and not unfre- 

 quently the whole surface is villous, and the zones mere 

 dejiressions. (Berk.) 



Tufted, subimbricated, thin, velvety, not strigose, margin 

 often almost glal>rous, iiallid. Pores white, shining. The 

 pileus is sometimes yellowish clay-colo\ir ; the zones also 

 vary in colour through rufous, rusty, yellowish, white, &c. 



Var. fuscatus. Fr. 



ZonelesB, 1)r(jwii, pcjres yellow, torn into teeth. (Fries.) 



