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810. Polypoius viridans. BerK S) Br. " Greenish Polyporus." 



Resiipinate, effused, at first wliite, Tvhen dry pallid green ; 

 border pnlverulento-tomentose, very thin ; pores minute, an- 

 gular ; dissepiments thin. — Ann. N.H. no. 347. 



On very rotten wood. Sept. 



This pretty species has the habit of P. vulgaris. 



811. Polyporus sanguinolentus. F,-. " Bleeding Polyporus." 



Nodulose, soon confluent, effused, soft, whitish, blood-stained 

 when touched ; circumference byssoid, evanescent; pores small, 

 subrotuud, unequal, at length torn. — Fr. Ejjicr.p.4,S6. Seem. 

 Journ. Bot. vii. p.^\. 



On rotten wood. [Low. Carolina.] 



812. Polyporus xnolluscus. Fr. " Thin-pored Polyporus." 



Effused, thin, soft, white ; circumference byssoid, fibrilloso- 

 radiate ; pores in the centre, or here and there collected in 

 patches, small, thin, round, unequal, and torn, growing pale. 

 —Fr. Epicr.p. 486. Fl. Dan. t. 1299. Sow. t. 387./. 9. Fng. Fl. 

 Y.p. 147. 



On dead wood. Rare. [Low. Carolina.] 



At first forming a mere fringed byssoid membrane, which gradually ac- 

 quires moderate, rigid, subrotund, and angular pores, the partitions of which 

 are so thin that they very generally become lacerated. — J/. /. B. 



813. Polyporus Gordoniensis. B. 4' Br. " Gordon's Fir Po- 



h-porus." 



Effused, superficial, membranaceous, veiy thin, but separable, 

 persistently white ; margin shortly fimbriate ; pores minute, 

 unequal, angular ; dissepiments very thin, flmbriato-dentate. — 

 Ann.N.H.\mh,no.\^1Z. 



On fir poles. Aboyne Castle. 



An extremely delicate species, and not in the slightest degree innate. The 

 margin remains snow-white, and the pores themselves change colour only 

 very slightly in drying. — J/. J. B. 



814. Polyporus texrestris. Fr. " Ground Polyporus." 



Effused, arachnoid, byssoid, delicate, fugaceous, white ; pores 

 central, very small, white, then rufescent. — Fr. Fpicr.j^'^iSd. 

 Fers. Ic. Pict. t. 16./. 1. Ann. N.H. no. 355. 



On naked soil or rotten wood. Rare. 



