POLTPOEEI. 281 



angular. — Fr, Epicr. p. ^82. Sovj, t.SS7,f.o. Ann. JSf.E. no. 

 350. 



On dead wood. 



802. Polyporus incarnatus. Fr. " Flesh-coloured Polyporus." 



Effused, coriaceous, firm, smooth, flesh-coloured, pores rather 

 long, unequal. — Fr. Epicr. p. 484. Pers. M.E. 1. 16,/. 4. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p.U6. 



On decaying trunks of firs. Rare. [United States.] 



Effased, irregular, thin, coriaceous, marginate, or inimarginate ; margin 

 white, cottony, rather thick, as if there was a tendency to become refiexed. 

 Pores minute, very short, round, sub-equal, straight or oblique, or of a fine 

 flesh colour, approaching in some cases to orange. Sometimes small cottony 

 protuberances occur amongst the pores, which have the appearance of small 

 pilei, with tubes underneath. — Grev. 



803. Polyporus violaceus. Fr. " Violet Polyporus. " 



Effused, determinate, agglutinate, thin, dark blood-red or 

 violet ; pores very short, cellulose, nearly round, obtuse, quite 

 entire. — Fr. Epicr. p. 484. Sys.Myo. i. p. 379. B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 JSr.H. 1865, no. 1021. Fl. exs. no. 715, ii. 502. 



On prostrate fir-poles. Scotland. 



Allied to Merulius, for which a young specimen might easily be taken. 



804. Polyporus purpureus. Fr. " Purple Polyporus." 



Broadly and widely effused, mycelium mucedinous, flocculose, 

 white, creeping on the surface of the wood ; pores short, minute, 

 unequal, obtuse, interruptedly scattered or conglomerate, purple 

 lilac. — Fr. Epicr. p. "^8^. Eostk.t.3. 



On decayed willow. Rare. [Mid. Carolina.] 



805. Polyporus cinctus. Berk. " Banded Polyporus." 



White, turning pallid, forming little scattered patches, each 

 surrounded by radiating strigose fibres ; pores extremely minute, 

 angular ; dissepiments extremely thin, edge ragged. — Mag. Zool. 

 ^Bot.i. t. '2 J. 3. Berk. Outl.p. 250. 



On old deal boards. Rare. King's Cliffe. 



At first this curious species consists of small erect scattered tufts of radiat- 

 ing strigose fibres. Many of these remain barren. Under favourable cir- 

 cumstances a distinct hymenium, 1^ line think, ^-ith a free, even, abrupt, 

 vertical circumference, is formed in the centre of each tuft. Numbers of 

 these at length become confluent. Pores so minute as to be scarce visible to 

 the naked eye. The colour of the whole is pale ochraceous, more or less 

 tawny when dry. — M.J.B. 



