DiBdalea.] FUNGI. 131 



Bull, t 449. /. 1. Sow. t. 191. Purt. JMidl Fl v. 2 c^ 3. n. 

 995.— B. albidasy With. v. 4. p. ^^l.—DcEclaka albida, Purt. 

 Midi. Fl. V. 3. Ji. 1494. f. 38. BoLfrondosns, Pvrt! v. 2 o- 3. 

 H. 992. 



Stumps of trees near the ground, especially where trees have been 

 felled. Summer, Autumn, and Winter. — PUtus 1 — 3 inches broad, 

 velvety, sometimes marked with concentric zones, oft^n perforated by 

 grass, leaves and small sticks, corky but watery, hard when dry, fur- 

 nished beneath with rather large, irregular wavy pores, more or less 

 flesh-coloured, especially when bruised- Stem, when present, lateral, 

 J — 2 inches high, velvety like the pileus, sometimes quite obsolete. 

 Dimidiate stemless specimens often grow in an imbricated manner, and 

 sometimes constitute a compact solid mass consisting of numerous 

 alternate layers of pores and pileus. When gathered and laid in a 

 fresh state with the surface of the pileus downwards, a new hymeniuni 

 is quickly formed upon it. 



2. Y). cjiier cilia, 1^. {oak-icocd Dcedalea) ; sessile pale wood- 

 colour, pileus corky smooth somewhat zoned rugulose, gills 

 contorted sinuous anastomosing. Pers. Sz/n. p. 500. Fr. Sijst. 

 Mi/c. V. 1. ;?. 333. Part. Blidl. Fl. v. 3. p. 247. Grev. ^FL 

 Ed. p. 398. Sc, Crypt. Fl. t. 238. Klotzsch, Fuiuj. Germ, 

 cxs. n. 26. — AgaricKS querchnis, Linn. Suec. 1241. Bolt.t. 73. 

 / £. Sow. t. iSl. With. V. 4. ;;. 269.—^. lahipijtthiformis, 

 Bull. t. 352, 442. f. 1 — A. dubius, Schceff. t. 231. ^Bccd. gibbosa, 

 Purt, V. 3. p. 248. t. 14. 



On posts, stumps of trees, &c., principally of oak. Perennial, com- 

 mon. — Pdeus 5 — G inches broad, sessile, dimidiate, of a pale woody 

 appearance, smooth, marked with concentric raised or depressed zones 

 and little radiating wrinkles, the margin in well-grown specimens thin, 

 but in ill-developed individuals swollen and blunt, in which slate it is 

 B. (jibhosa, Purt. Gills of the same colour as the pileus, with some- 

 times a slight sluide of j)ink, woody, thick, sinuous, branched and anas- 

 tomosing, so as to form long wavy pores a Ime or more broad. Some- 

 times the whole plant is rcsuijinate or decurrent, in which case the 

 partitions are often elongated into tooth-like processes, 



3. 7). bctidi/ia, L. (pale straiyht-gilhd Badaha) ; sessile 

 pale, pileus coriaceous zoned tomentose or villoiis, gills straight 

 Lut little branched. Fr. S/jst. Myc. v. \. p. 333. Purt. Midi. 

 Fl. V. 3. J). 247. Fl. Ban. t. 1556. Kl. Ftniy. Germ. e.is. n. 

 27. — Ayaricus betidinus, Finn. Succ. 1244. Sow. t. 182. }Vith. 

 V. 4. p. 2G8.—A. coriaceus, Bull. t. 537. / C. G. P. M. 394. 

 Bolt. t. 13. f. c. d. 158. Pers. Syn. p. 486. 



On trunks^of various trees, but especially birch, posts, Sic. Perennial ; 



not imcommon Smaller and ihinmr than the last. Pikns 2 — 4 inches 



broad, coriaceous, sessile, dimidiate, deeply grooved concentrically and 

 clothed wiiii ilcnse pubescence or coarse velvetv down, grevish or jnilc ; 

 often green from various miiuitc Ab/tr. (Ulls straight, much thinner 

 than in the last, tan-coloured, not much branched or anastomosing, 

 their margin al length torn. 



