Dadalea.] FUNGI. 133 



Old trees, especially Crab or Service. Perennial, rare. Fixby Hall 

 near Darlington. Polton. Near Bridgenorth, Salop. Purton, 



8. D. unicolor^ Bull, (self-coloured Dcedalea) ; sessile, cine- 

 reous, pileus coriaceous villous zoned, pores unequal subflexuous 

 at length torn. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 336. Part. Midi FL 

 V. 3. p. 247. Kl. Fung. Germ, exs. n. 2Q.^Bol. unicolovy 

 Bull t, 408, 501./ 3. Bolt. t. 163. Sow, t, 325. With, v, 4. 

 p, 288. — Sistotreiita cinereum, Pers, Syn, p, 551. 



Trunks of trees, stumps, &c. Autumn and early spring, very common. 



Iiiibiicated. Pileus 2 — 4- inches broad, coriaceous, zoned, densely 



villous, often green from minute Alyce. Pores narrow, small, irregular, 

 unequal, subflexuous. Specimens occur occasionally, very similar to 

 some states o^ Polyporus versicolor, but when once known it will not 

 be confounded either with that or Deed, betulina. 



9. D. sunveolens^ Bull, (sweet- scented Dcedalea) ; sessile, pileus 

 between coriaceous and corky smooth, from snow-white be- 

 coming somewhat tawny, pores elongated irregular rufescent. 

 Pers. Syn, p. 502. Fr, Syst. Myc, v, I. p, 337. Purt, MSS. 

 —Boh suaveolens. Bull, t, 310. Purt. v. 2 S^ 3, n, 999. (ex- 

 cluding most of the synonyms). 



On trunks of willows. Autumn, not common. Cambridge. Rev. 

 M J. Berhehy.—'' Easily distinguished by its odour (when young), 

 vthi( h resembles aniseed. White at first, then rufescent, zoned and 

 scabrous; within dingy straw-colour." Fr. I. c. 



10. D. yibbosa, Pers. (gibbous Dcedalea) ; sessile dirty-white, 

 pileus corky villous, the base projecting and gibbous, pores 

 linear nearly straii^ht. Pers, Syn, p, 501. Fr. Syst. Myc, v. 

 1. p. 338. Kl. Fang, Germ, exs, n. 29. Fl, Dun, t, 1564. 

 (not of Purton). — B detas s'uiuosus, Sow. ! t. 194. 



On the root of a poplar at Lambeth : Sept. ; black and decaying in 

 Dec. Sowcrby.— Sessile, dimidiate, zoned, corky, hard, elastic, zones 

 convex and tuberculated, dirty-white, beautifully velvety, when old 

 cinereous and green from minute Abjce, the edge obtuse or subacute, 

 often projecting at the base and veiy gibbous, but not invariably so ; 

 substance white ; pores linear, mostly straight, except at the base where 

 they are roundish or irregular, very narrow, pale-tan. 



11. Z). angustiitay Sow. (inirrotv- pored Dcedalea'); sessile, 

 pileus corky zoned stained with crimson, the margin silvery 

 brown pubescent, pores dark Uuig narrow. Pers. Syn. p. 502. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v, I, p. 338 Bold us angustatus, Soiv ! t. 193. 



At tlie foot of a Poplar, Lambeth ; Soutrby, who also received it 

 from Mr. liobson o{ Darlington.— Much like the last, hut the zoties 

 are much narrower, the dissepiineius dark and more like gills. The 

 specimen of />. yibbo.sa in Klotzsch's dried Fungi is quite as thin. 13ol. 

 albus. Bolt. t. 7H, wliich Fries considers ncarl) related, 1 am disposed 

 to think a state of Dad. biennis. 



12. I), lafissi/nrr, Vr. (broad effused Difdtf ha) ; effused corky 

 thick undulated of a pale woody appearance, pores flexuous 



