136 FUNGI. [Polyporus, 



flat, thin, leather-like. Pores white, very short. Stem pale or reddish- 

 brown, thick as a crowquill and about half an inch high." With. I. c. 



6. P. perennis, L. {perennial ciniiamon PoJyporus) ; pileus 

 coriaceous velvety zoned cinnamon as well as the stem, pores 

 minute of the same colour, at length torn. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. 

 p. 350. Grev, FL Ed. p. 398. Rostk. I. c. L 6 — Bol. perennis, 

 Li?in. Suec. 1245. Sow. t 192. With. v. 4. p. 275. Pers. 



Syn. /?. 518. Purt. 3Iidl. FL v. 2 S^ 3. n. 1171 B. coriaceus, 



Schceff. t. 125. Bull. t. 28, 449./. 2.—^. suhtomentosus, Bolt, 

 t. 87i — B.Jimhriatus, Bull. t. 254. 



On the ground in sandy places, woods, ("old charcoal pits," Stack- 

 house) &c. Autumn and Winter, remaining through the following 

 summer in a growing state. — Pileus 1|^— -2 inches broad, varying in 

 depth of colour, cup-shaped when young, nearly plane when old; often 

 confluent, zoned, soft and velvety and marked with little raised radiat- 

 ing lines giving it a striated appearance ; margin fimbriate or laciniated. 

 Pores small, roundish or angular, at length torn, decurrent. Stem 1 

 inch high, varying greatly in thickness, very tough, velvety, bulbous 

 at the base. 



7. P. vdrius, Pers. (variable Polyporus) ; pileus rigid smooth 

 even, pores minute subrotund pale, stem short even pale the 

 base almost always abruptly black. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \. p. 532. 

 Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 399. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 202. Posth. let. 11. 

 —P. nummularius, t. 12. — Bol. aurantius^ Schceff. t. 109, 110. 

 — Bol. variuSi Pers. Syn. p. 523. — Bol. hadius, p. 523. — BoL 



lateralis, Bolt. t. 83. With. v. 4. p. 284 B. nigripes, With, 



V. 4. p. 277. Purt. Midi. Fl. v. 2. p. 663.-5. eleyons, Bull. 

 t. 46.— P. calceolus, t. 360, 445./. 2. Bolt. t. 168. With. v. 4. 

 p. 284. Purt. I, c. 71. 994. — B. nummidarius. Bull. t. 124. 

 Sow. t. 89. Purt. V.2 ^3. n. 986.— J5. hetulinuSy With. v. 4. 

 p. 282, and B. polyporus, p. 272. 



Trunks of trees and branches lying on the ground ; all the year ; 

 common. — Very variable in size, ^ — 4 inches broad. Pileus hard, 

 lateral, excentric or regular, infundibuliform or convex, deep red-brown 

 or dirty- white, smooth and even. Pores decurrent, very minute and 

 shallow. Stem, when present, generally either altogether or abruptly 

 jet-black at the base. Occasionally the stem is altogether pale, from 

 which state B. substrictus. Bolt. t. 170, appears to differ in its angular, 

 and if the figure may be trusted, larger pores. The curious var. y. 

 convolutus, {Pers. Myc. Eur. v. 2. p. 32.) has been found at Clunie by 

 Mr. Arnott. 



8. P. lucidus, Leyss. (lacquered Polyporus) ; pileus corky 

 smooth shining as if lacquered as well as the stem, pores 

 minute round pale. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \. p. 353. Grev. Sc. 

 Crypt. Fl. t. 245. Bosth. I. c. t. 13. Roques, Hist, des Champ, 

 p. 56, t. 2. / 1. — Bol. lucidus, Hooker in Curt. Fl. Lond. t. 

 224, Soxo. t, 134. Purt. Midi. Fl. v. 2 ^ 3. n. 991.— P. 

 rugosm. With, v, 4. p, 281. — B, variegatus, Schceff. t, 263.^*^ 

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