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P. sulphureus Fr. (Lat., sulphur-coloured). 



On trunks ; not common ; yellowish, attached 



laterally, usually with no stem. On the stump 



of an oak not very long cut down, in a field, 



Edmondsham. On an apple trunk, in a garden, 



Longham. 

 P. hispidus Fr. (Lat., hairy, or bristly). 



On living ash trunks and other trees, laterally 



attached, sessile ; rusty brown ; not common. 



On elm, Godlingston, near Swanage, C. B. Green. 

 P. nidulans Fr. (Lat., nest-building, probably from 



its occasional appearance). 



On trunks and fallen branches ; fragrant when 



dry ; far from common. Talbot Wood, Langton, 



on rotten oak branch, C. B. Green. 

 P. mollis Fr. (Lat., soft). 



On dead pine stumps ; not common in the Forest, 



nor in this district ; soft to the touch, pores white, 



reddish when bruised. Pine wood near Broadstone. 



P. betulinus Fr. (Lat., betula, a birch tree, its usual host). 



On trunks of birches that are moribund ; said 



to be common in the N. Forest, not so in East 



Dorset ; bulky with a thick fleshy pileus. In 



the northern section of Furze Common Copse, 



Edmondsham. 

 P. borealis Fr. (Lat., northern). 



On stumps of larch and fir ; not common. 



Furze Common Copse. 

 P. adustus Fr. (Lat., scorched, in allusion to the dark 



grey-brown hymenium). Durlston plantations ; 



Ballard Down, C. B. Green. Dead Man's Corner, 



Cranborne, on beech stumps. Castle Hill Wood. 



Birches Copse near Sutton Holms. Belt N. side 



of St. Giles' Park. 

 P. amorphus Fr. (Gr., shapeless). 



On rotten pine branches or spreading over pine 



leaves on the ground ; pileus white ; pores golden- 



