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pores rather subregular or at least not daedaloid. According to 

 FERIES his plant is frequent »ad ligna putrida Pini in montosis». 

 My Pol mollis grows just on such places. I can not say that it is 

 properly frequent here around Stockholm, but I have about eiglit 

 collections of it, all from pine except two which are from spruce. 

 It agrees tolerably with Fries' figure llcon. sel. t. 182 fig. 3), though 

 my plant has more often the shape of fig. 2 {Pol. fragilis) of the 

 same plate, that is to say, the rear part which adheres to the bark 

 or wood is more elongated upwards. There is no other species 



Fig. 2. Pjlyportis myllif. 



<lescribed by Fries, to which my plant can be referred, and his 

 figure shows subregular and not flexuose pores. ^) In dried state 

 the whole plant is almost unicolor (carneo-testaceus or sublateritiusi- 

 The pores are even darker and do not retain anything of the white 

 color as one could suppose from the description. 



The specimens distributed by K.\rstex in Fungi Fenn. 312 have 

 whitish pores and seem to belong to another species, viz. Pol. 



*) It may be noted in thi.s connection that the pores seem to varv in some spe- 

 cies. Pol. caesius for instance is collected both with subregular and with daedaloid 

 pores. 



