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272 POLTPOEEI. 



On the ground. 



Yery variable in form, sometimes fixed by the apes, sometimes resupinate, 

 white, waxy, thickish when fresh, but losing much of its substance in age, 

 here and there acquiring a foxy tinge ; substance not zoned within ; pores 

 when horizontal with the edges even, but often elongated and irregular, not 

 stratose ; surface scarcely tomentose, uneven. Turning brownish in drying. 

 —B. d; Br. 



767. Polyporus amorphus. Fr. " AiDorphous Polypoms." 



Pileus fleshy, tough, thin, generally effuso-reflexed, pores 

 minute, unequal, golden-yellow, at first dusted with white. — Fr. 

 Epicr.pAhl. SoiL\t.^22,. Nees.f.22^. Eng.Fl.Y.p.lSd.Fckl. 

 exs. 1372. 



On the ground amongst pine leaves. 



Eesupinate with the upper margin reflexed or dimidiate, imbricated, 

 somewhat zoned, white and silky ; pores minute, short, yellowish, or rich 

 tawny, pniinose when young. — J/. /. B. 



768. Polyporus hispidus. Fr, " Hispid Polyporus." 



Pileus compact, spongy, fleshy, dimidiate, pulvinate, hispid, 

 sub-ferruginous, divergently fibrous within ; pores minute, round, 

 inclined to separate, fringed, paler. — Fr. Epicr.p. 458. Grev. t. 

 14. Bolt.t.lQ>l. Sow.t.Mb. Bull. t. 210,493. Krombh.tAH, 

 /. 7-10. Huss. i. ^.29,31. Eng.Fl. v. p. 138. KLexs.no. 1913. 

 Fckl.exs. 1389. 



On trunks of living trees. Common. [United States.] 



Spores yellowish. Pileus a foot or more across, 4 in. thick, dimidiate, with 

 occasionally an obsolete, knob-like stem, generally very hispid, but some- 

 times almost smooth and cracked, substance fleshy but fibrous, marked with 

 concentric lines, which seem to indicate diiTerent intervals in which vege- 

 tation has been more or less dormant, brown, blackish, yellowish, or reddish- 

 brown, below pale yellow or rich sienna brown, margin paler. — J/. J. B. 



769. Polyporus cuticularis. Fr. " Hairy Polyporus." 



Pileus very thin, spongioso-camose, then dry, plane, hairy- 

 tomentose, ferruginous, then blackish-brown ; margin fibroso- 

 fimbriate, internally loose and parallel, fibrous ; pores long, 

 minute, pallid, then ferruginous. — Fr. Epicr. p. 458. B. ^ Br. 

 Ann. N. H. (1866), no. 1137. Bull. t. 462. Kl. exs. no. 33. 



On trunks. Burnham Beeches. 



The hairs are curiously trifid at the apex, the spores yellow. Pores longer 

 than the thickness of the flesh. Spores copious, ochraceous. 



