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and weighing many pounds. Pilei wavy, margin often lobed, 

 almost glabrous, yellow, or more or less suffused with red ; 

 flesh thick, yellow, then whitish, of a cheese-like consistency, 

 not becoming hard when dry. Tubes up to h in. long, pores 



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Fig. 118. Polvporus sulpkureus. 1, fungus, reduced ; 2, section 

 of same; 3, basidium bearing four spores, highly mag. 



minute, primrose-yellow, spores elliptical, minutely warted, 7-8 



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Globose conidia are formed in special receptacles of the 

 pileus, and also on the mycelium growing in the wotod. A 

 second conidial condition at one time considered as an 



