162 FUNGI OF EAST DORSET. 



yellow ; common. Middle Plantation, Itempston, 



on pine stump, C. B. Green. Ferndown, Mrs. 



Pringle. Fir plantation, Jm. S. of Daggon's Road 



Station. 

 P. caesius Fr. (Lat., bluish-gray). 



On dead trunks, especially pine ; white turning 



glaucous or bluish-gray ; rare. Pine wood, Broad- 

 stone. 

 P. fragilis Fr. (Lat., easily broken). 



On decayed fir-w r ood ; whitish, spotted with 



brown when touched ; uncommon. Fir wood N. 



of Ferndown. Branksome Park. 

 P. adiposus B. and Br. (Lat., same as adipatus ? fatty, 



greasy). 



On trunks and on the ground near stumps ; white 



tinged with and turning brown ; rare, not in the N. 



Forest list. Castle Hill Wood. Furze Common 



Copse. 



Genus 4. FOMES Fr. (Lat., fomes, tinder, for which some 

 of the species were used). Pores stratose, each 

 season's layer forming beneath that of the previous 

 year ; hard, woody. 



F. ulmarius Fr. (Lat. adjective of ulmus, an elm, 

 from its host). 



On old elm trunks ; flesh w T hite, pores tawny or 

 yellowish ; not common ; absent from the N. 

 Forest list. Studland Churchyard (on elm), C. B. 

 Green. 



F. fomentarius Fr. (Lat., providing tinder, for which 

 it was frequently used). 



On trunks of various trees ; brown, hard, hoof- 

 shaped ; not common. Witchampton, Mrs. Baker. 

 F. igniarius Fr. (Lat., providing fire, i.e., tinder). 



On trunks of various trees ; ferruginous, then 

 blackish-brown ; frequent in the N. Forest ; in this 

 District only observed in the Edmondsham Rectory 



