IPolyporus.] FUNGf. 143 



thick smootli dirty-white at length somewliat of a brick-red, 

 pores minute pale. Fr. SysL Myc. v, I. p. 374. — B.frajcineiiSj 

 Bull t. 433./. 2. 



On ash and elm. Madingley, Canib. Apethorpe, Norths. Bcv, 

 M. J. Berhekt/. — Solitary or imbricated, thick, nigged, somewhat zoned, 

 dark red-brown ; substance corky, pale. Pui-es minute, pale, of the 

 same colour as the pileus within. Smell strong and penetrating. The 

 specimens described above were gathered on the rotten stump of an 

 elm ; but another occi:rred on ash, apparently belonging to the same 

 species, of an enormous size, nearly 42 inches across, and had evidently 

 been growing a great numher of years, making very slow progress. The 

 upper surface is very rugged and somewhat cracked, whitish only at the 

 margin, the rest dirty-brown ; the orifices of the tubes are pale, and 

 their interior not red but nearly of tlie same colour. Substance of a 

 pale woody colour and very hard, resembling cork. 1 lie smell was 

 very strong, and is still perceptible in a dry fragment now before me. 

 If I am mistaken in referring this gigantic specimen to P. /rfMiz/ee^^, 

 the error may easily be corrected by any competent person, as it is 

 deposited in the Botanical Museum at Cambridge. 



30. P. radidius^ Sow. (^radiated Polyporus) ; pilei coriaceous 

 radiato-striate slightly velvety brownish-yellow, pwes small. 



Fr. Sysl. Myc. v. l.y;. 369. Fl. I. p. 102 B. radiaUis, Soiu. 



t. 196. 



On stumps. Stone Park, Withiham ; Sussex. — Tawny specimens 

 of P. versicolor sometimes occur, ver}^ much resembling this species ; 

 but it appears from Sowerby's own specimens, which are however in a 

 very decayed state, as well as the opinion of Fries, to be altogether 

 distinct. 



31. P. pinicola, S\v. (Pine-tree Polyporus) ; hard, pileus 

 dilated pulvinate unequal blackish, margin vermilion, pores 

 round pale-ochre. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. ^>>. .S72. — Bol. pinicola ^ 

 Sivartz, 0/js. Bot. p. 88. — B. semioroidens, Scliceff. t. 270. — B. 

 igniarius^Pers. Syn. 2^.524. — b. margin yellow-brown.* Klolzsch 

 MSS. 



On pine-trunks, var. h. Scotland. Arnott, — P/7e?^<f imbricated, very 

 hard,G inches broad, 4 inches thick at the base, gibbous, rugged, scabnnis, 

 zoned and sulcatc, much cracked, margin subacute, as well as the ratlier 

 large irregular sinuous pores. Substance spontiy, taw ny, soft, excellent 

 for tinder. The above account is taken from Klotzsch's MSS., on 

 whose authority the specimen now before me, which is very handsome 

 and appears to have grown very slowly, is consiilered a variety of P. 

 pinicola. If this be correct, it is difficidt to believe, as Fries positively 

 asserts, that is a persistent state of P. nianjinatus, as the pores in that 

 are described as " minimi, rotundi." • 



32. P. dryadcus^ Pers. ( false Amadou') ; rather soft tuher- 

 culated more or less of a cinnamon line whitish in ago, nnirgin 

 swollen Avhitish as well as the minute pores, at length brownish. 

 Fr. ,Sysi. Myc. V. 1. p. 271. Fl. 1. p. \Q8.^Bol. dryadras, 



Pcrs. Syn. p. 5.'i7 B. pseudo-itiniariuSy Bull. t. 4.)8. Part. 



Midi. Fl. V. 3. 71. I4b6. 



• Klot/.scli's tenn is " Kimdicciis," but that dues not ncooiU w ith tJic sjh i imrn. 



