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ones wavy or cut. Pores unequal, deeurrent on the stem and 

 branches. Flesh soft, esculent. (Fries.) 



Polyporus frondosus. Fr. 



Tuft ',—1 ft. across, very much branched, fibrous, fleshy, 

 rather tough ; pileoli very numerous, J— 2 in. broad, smoky- 

 grey, dimidiate, rugose, lobed, intricately recurved ; flesh 

 white : stems growing into each other, white ; tubes short, 

 tender, pores very small, acute, white, round, or torn when 

 in an oblique position. 



Poiyporus frondosus, Fr., Syst. Myc. i. p. 355; Stev., Fung. 

 Brit., p. 193. 



On stumps, roots, trunks, &c. Flesh white ; pores com- 

 monly rounded but oblique, and with the dissepiments torn 

 when in an oblique position. 



Pilei very numerous, dimidiate, forming irregular convex 

 tufts, 4-1 ft. bigh, crowded, imbricated or variously grown 

 together; at first tomentose, smoky, tlien glabrous and livid- 

 grey, disc depressed, dilated above, ^-2 in., convex, base 

 jDroduced into a stem terminated by a thick, rooting base. 

 (Fries.) 



Polyporus intybaceus. Fr. 



Very much branched, fleshy, rather fragile, pilei numerous, 

 dimidiate, expanded, sinuate, at length spathulate, nearly 

 even, yellowish, or greyish brown ; branches united at the 

 base into a very short, thick, stem-like base ; tul)es veiy 

 short, pores rather torn, whitish-brown ; sjDores colourless, 

 elliptical, 7 x 3*5 /x. 



Pohjporus intyhaceus. Fries, Epicrisis. p. 446 ; Cke., Hdbk,, 

 p. 267. 



On trunks. 



Tufts 1-2 ft. across, flaps expanding on every side. 

 ►Smells like mice. 



Polyporus cristatus. Fr. 

 Stem white, irregularly branched, rather thick, 1-2 in. 

 high; sul).stance flesliy, linn, fragile ; pileoli 2-3 in. broad, 

 irregular, fleshy, entire or dimidiate, variable in number, 

 sometimes imbricated, dojiressed, rufous with a more or less 

 decided green tinge, cuticle breaking u]) and becoming 

 powdery or villous, then cracking into minute scales ; pores 



