292 



POLTPOEEI. 



at length open and urceolate.— Fr. Epicr. p. 504. Ann. des. Sc. 

 Nat. (1836), vol. v. i^. 339. Ann. N.H. no. 359. 

 On pine wood. Rare. 



Pores often crowned witli a pellucid drop. (Fig. 69. j 



Gen. 27. 



nSTULINA, Bull. Champ. 



Hjmenophore fleshy. Hy- 

 menium inferior, at first papillose; 

 the papillae at length elongated, 

 and forming distinct tubes. 



{Fig. 70.) 



Epixylous fungi, intermediate between 

 Polyporei and HydiieU 



Fig. 70. 



841. 



Fistulina hepatica. " Liver Fistulina." 



Fleshy, juicy, rootless ; pileus undivided, blood-red ; tubes 

 yellowish. — Fr. Epicr. j^. 504. Scliaff. t. 116-120. Sow.t.bS. 

 Boq.t.2.f.4.. Bail. t. 29. Kl. exs.no. U(J4:. Fl.Dan.t. 1039. Grev. 

 t.270. Lenz.f.4.0. Krojubh.t. 5. f. 9,10. t. 47./. 1-12. Vitt.t.SG. 

 Paul. t. 12. CooJce B.F. t.l^. Badh. i. t. 12. f. 4. ii. ^. 12./. 2. 

 BerJc.Outl. t. 17./. 1. Hvss.i.t.6b. Smith E.M.f. 21. Price J. 

 22. Eng. Fl. x. ;?. 154. Gard. Chron. (1861) /a 121. Trans. 

 Woolh. CI. 1869. Hogg. ^- Johnst. t. 7. Barla. t. 30./. 4-7. Vent, 

 t. 36./ 1, 2. FcJd. exs. no. 1357. 



On trunks of old oaks. Common. Esculent. [Up. Carolina.] 



Pileus roundish, dimidiate, or subspathulate, in general more or less con- 

 cave, studded with minute, stel]ate, furfuraceous tufts, the rudiments of 

 tubes, rich red-brown, tinged with vermilion, sometimes substipitate ; 

 margin obtuse, substance thick and juicy, marbled like beet-root, distilling a 

 red pellucid juice from different parts of the plant; hymenium convex, 

 elegantly tinted with shades of red or vermilion, dotted with rose-like some- 

 what remote, radiated warts, which form a veil to the young tubes ; as the 

 pileus expands the tubes elongate and become approximate, and are jagged 

 at tlieir orifices. Taste rather acid. It attains sometimes an enormous size, 

 even nearly 30 pounds in weight. — Eng. Fl. Spores salmon colour, nearly 

 round, with an oblique apiculus, diameter 'OOOIS in. (Fig. 70, reduced.) 



