CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGL ‘tac Stemlas: 319 
(1) Tugs Warre, : a9 
is known, from its perfect) resemblance to’ cork. .. Lobes.thick. 
Pores irregular in sir shape. Bull. C.D. G, are se than T 
have seen it. Mr. Stacknousz. 
Trunks of ash trees in Westmoreland, common, “(lei 
near Bath, on stumps of trees. Mr. StacknousE.].. 
Bor, (Jaca.) Woolly white, erustaceous, “spies “medul la- 
pores on the upper surface only ; slanting.  ~—panis, 
Facg. mise. 1; _11-Bolt. 167, the dower figure-Mich. 63. 2. 
~ Crustaceous, white, spread thin, accommodating - itself to 
the surface of the ground or of the’ rotten. wood on which it 
grows, from 1 line to several in thickness, soft when young but 
firm. Pores very small, cylindrical, numerous; a little slant- 
ing, covering the whole upper surface only. Jacquin. 
Cn rotten wood, Dicks. 18, and decayed branches of trees. 
Rety. 2. 1044.—[1 found this in.a ploughed field near .Bun- 
gay, a Y growing on the ground, but on examination it 
arose froma aay ed root near the surface. Mr. Woopwarp.— 
On the bark of fallen trees in the rookery, ae.) April. 
~ War, 2. Pores very shallow. ~~ Seidaist 
Bolt 166. 
At first white, thin, and like white glove leather fall of ” mato ae 
pores with short tubes, or rather resembling deep cells. In time 
these pores disappear, the plant becomes thicker and firmer, the 
edge lobed and ajalloped, the surface leathery and smooth, but 
sometimes cracked, ‘The edge then begins to separate from the 
wood, the colour changes to pale brown, and at last to dark red 
brown ; it then becomes hard, dry and brittle, the border i is 
more raised and the under ‘side appears marked with black cir- 
cles. In this state it remains for a long time and at last turns 
black and moulders. Botton p. 166. 
Bol, proteus. On decayed wood, and aches of trees, im 
damp situations. On the stump of a tree that had been sawn 
off; Edgbaston. = ies Oy —Feb. 
Bot. (Buiu.). Tubes white to tawny $ 3 very phinets ; pileus salic’inus. 
semi-circular, whitish, smooth, thin, soft, leathery. 
Bull, 433. 1. 
“Taubes hardly the tenth of an inch long. " Pikeus not marked 
with concentric circles, always. smooth.and thin, from 2 to 5 
inches over... It is seldom found in clusters; always on sickly 
or dead willows, Sometimes it sends out fibrous roots between 
pe bark-and the wood. . Substance-soft, leathery, not hard like 
; its duration not more than 2 or 3 months. Butiiarp. 
This’ grows out of decayed willows; it is dry and leathery 3 
