Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 319 



road leading from Nealishead to Irstead, Norfolk, Sept. 26, 1864. 

 Its claims to a place in the British Flora rested previously on 

 the authority of Sibthorpe alone. 



1021. Polyporus (Resupinati) violaceus, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. 

 p. 379. 



On prostrate fir poles. Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. 



Allied to Merulius, for which a young specimen might easily 

 be taken. The figure of P. purpureus in Rostkovius is an excel- 

 lent representation of our plant ; but that species turns quite 

 pale when dry, as in an authentic specimen from Fries. 



1022. P. (Resupinati) subfuscus-flavidus, Rostk. in Sturm, 

 no. 27. tab. 11. 



On oak planks in the roof of King's Cliffe Church. 



The pores appear, when viewed one way, of a greyish brown, 

 and the other white. The species appears to be the same with 

 one received from Lindblad, marked " Pol. n. s." ; and if we 

 had not a supreme dislike to alter names, we should propose the 

 name of P. Lindbladii instead of the barbarous name given above 

 from Rostkovius. 



*P. (Resupinati) hybridus, B. & B., Outl. British Fungi, 

 p. xvii. 



This species does not, as Fries supposes, belong to Anodermei; 

 much less is it identical with P. fragilis. 



*P. (Resupinati) vapor arius, Fr. Var. secernibilis, candidus, 

 exsiccatus melleus. 



A very remarkable variety of this (if it may be called a variety) 

 occurred with Hydnum niveum, at Ascot, creeping over fir-leaves 

 and heath-twigs quite shaded from the light, and differing from 

 ■ the common form in being of a pure white when fresh, changing, 

 when dry, to honey-yellow. The subiculum is filmy and se- 

 parable ; but we find states of P. vaporarius which approach it 

 so closely in this respect that we cannot detect any good dis- 

 tinctive character. 



1023. P. (Resupinati) Gordoniensis, n. sp. Effusus, super- 

 ficialis, membi-anaceus, tenuissimus sed secernibilis, persistenter 

 candidus, margine breviter fimbriato; poris minutis insequali- 

 bus angulatis, dissepimentis tenuissimis fimbriato-dentatis. 



On fir poles. Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire. 



An extremely delicate species, and not in the slightest degree 

 innate. The margin remains snow-white, and the pores them- 

 selves change colour only very slightly in drying. 



1024. Hydnum fragile, Fr. Mon. Hym. Suec. vol. ii. p. 274; 

 Bergeret, vol. i. t. 13, p. 97. 



Amongst heath, Ascot, where it was pointed out to us by the 

 Rev. G. H. Sawyer, mixed with enormous specimens of Hydnum 

 imbricatum. 



