POEIA. 20i 



IV. Pores yelloio, ochraceous, or honey-colour. 



Poria Laestadii. Fr. & Berk. 



Snlostance thin, white, very brittle, separable ; hymeBinm 

 tuberculose here and there ; pores short, bright citron- 

 yellow, circular or rather elongated and sinuous, very 

 minute ; spores 5 X 2'5 fx. 



Polyporus Laestadii, Fries & Berk., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 2025. 



On the underside of a deal board in a hot-house. Colour 

 bright persistent yellow ; forming confluent patches many 

 inches in length ; substance from 1-2 lines thick, compact, 

 white, surface irregular, nodulose, the lumps varying in size 

 from a pin's head to that of a pea and larger ; pores exceed- 

 ingly short, sometimes circular, 4-5 in the space of 1 mm. 

 or elongated and curved. Judging from the specimens, the 

 fungus appears to be perennial, a new stratum of pores 

 developing each year, the latest stratum bright primrose- 

 yellow. 



Poria nitida. A. & S. 



Effused, subadnate, determinate, margin villous, yellow 

 or almost golden ; pores short, minute, round, equal, shining. 



Polyporus nitidiis. Alb. & Schw., Lus., p. 258 ; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 214. 



On rotten wood. Eecognised by its bright yellow colour. 

 Crust-like, adnate. 



Poria bombycina. Fr. 



Effused, silky-membranaceous, loosely attached to the 

 matrix, dirty yellow, margin velvety ; j)ores large, angular 

 and sinuous ; spores elliptic-oblong, 6-7 X 4 /a. 



Polyporus homhycinus, Fries, Elench. i. p. 117 ; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 214. 



On rotten wood, &c. Pores at first appearing as roundish 

 depressions in the loosely silky substance of the fungus, 

 then becoming angular and sinuous, when regular about 

 -^ mm. across. 



Poria ramentacea. B. & Br. 

 Somewhat orl>icular ; subicnlum white, tomentose, margin 

 obsolete ; pores honey-colour, large, somewhat hexagonal, 

 dissepiments thin, rather rigid, entire ; spores 6 x 3 /x. 



