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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Polyporus epileucus. Br. 



This is quite a large and beautiful plant. It apparently grows without a 

 stem, its color being an unequal gray. The pileus is somewhat coriaceous, 

 firm, pulvinate, villous. 



The pores are round, elongated, obtuse, entire, white. 



This is not common with us, but I have met it a few times and always on elm 

 logs or stumps. 



Figure 337. Polyporus betulinus. 



Polyporus betulinus. Fr. 



Thl Birch Polyporus. Edible. 



Betulinus is from betulina, birch. 



The pileus is from four to ten inches across, fleshy, soon corky, ungulate, 

 obtuse, smooth, pale reddish-brown when mature, often mottled, roundish, or 



