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POLYPOEEI. 



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angular, whitish-brown. — Berh. Outl. p. 236. Dicks, i. t. 3, /. 2. 

 Pers. M.E. t. 19. B.stroUlaceus^Fr. Epicr. p. 422. Kromhh. t, 4, 

 /. 28-30, t. l^J. 12-13. Eng. Fl. v. p. 154. 



In fir woods. Rare. Ludlow. Haywood Forest, Hereford. 



[Carolina. Canada.] 



Spores very dark. Pileus 2 in. broad, tesselated or cracked, like the cone 

 of the Scotch fir ; pores very vrhite ; stem 3-4 in. high, thick, solid. — M. J. B. 



(Fig.m.) 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad, tougb, pulvinate, brown, broken up into large, thick 

 projecting scales (like the cone of the Scotch fir), merging into a thick floc- 

 cose, ragged and pendulous, white veil at margin ; stem solid, equal, coarsely, 

 fibrillose, 3-6 in. long, ^ in. or more thick, brown at the base, and white at 

 the deeply sulcato-reticulated apes, which runs gradually into the tubes ; 

 tubes white, very large, adnate, or with a decurrent tooth anastomosing ; 

 spores oval, nearly globose, stalked, blackish-brown, "00038 X '00053 in. 

 The whole plant turns deep sienna-red when cut or bruised. — W. G. S. 



Gen. 20. POLYPORUS, Fr. Gen. Hym. 



Hymenophore descending into the 

 trama of the pores, which are not 

 easily, if at all, separable, and changed 

 with them into a distinct substance. 



{Fig. 64.) 



Hymenophore descending into the trama 

 of the pores, which are confluent with the 

 substance of the pileus, and not easily, if at 

 all, separable from each other, or from the 

 hymenophore ; the trama, with the pores, 

 when full grown, being diff'erent from the 

 hymenophore in substance and often in 

 colour. Pores at first clearly formed by the 

 perforation of the substance of the pileus, 

 very minute, imperfect, or entirely absent, 

 Pig. 64. then rounded, angular, or lacerated. 



Fungi of various forms, at first of an acid odour, not preformed like Bo- 

 letus, but growing indefinitely. Polyporus is the central genus of the Poly- 

 porei, more or less approaching in character to all the other genera, as 

 Agaricus does to the genera of the Agaricmi. The sections of Poly£)orus 

 are founded on structural characters, but the genus might be divided accord- 

 ing to the colour of the spores, like Agaricm. — W.G.S. 



Sect. 1. Mesopus — pileus entire, stem distinct. 



735. Polyporus bmmalis. Fr. " Winter PoljiDorus." 



Pileus between fleshy and coriaceous, subumbilicate, zoneless, 

 in the first season dingy Tillous, in the second sciuamulose, be- 



