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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Polyporus lacteus. Fr. 



The pileus is white, or whitish, fleshy, somewhat fibrous, fragile, triangular 

 in form, pubescent, azonate, margin somewhat inflexed, acute. 



The pores are thin, acute, dentate, finally lacerate and labyrinthiform. 



This species is found in the woods, on beech logs. It is small and thin, not 

 much more than an inch in width but sometimes elongated. Steep and gibbous 

 behind, becoming at length smooth and equal. It is not abundant in our woods, 

 but I have found it often. August and September. 



Polyporus cccsius. Schrad. 



The pileus is white, with a bluish tinge occasionally upon its surface, soft, 

 tenaceous, unequal, silky. 



The pores are small, unequal, long, flexuous, dentate, lacerate. 



It is found in woods on partially decayed sticks. I have only occasionally 

 found a specimen in our woods. 



Polyporus pubcsccns. Seine. 



Pubescens means downy; so called from the satiny finish of its pileus, 

 which is fleshy, quite tough and corky, soft, convex, subzonate, pubescent and 



shiny ; white without 

 and within; the mar- 

 gin acute, becoming 

 at length yellowish 

 and hard, with a 

 shiny lustre. 



The pores are 

 short, minute, nearly 

 round and plane. 



The pileus is from 

 one to two inches 

 in width, laterally 

 confluent and usually 

 very much imbri- 

 cated. Quite plenti- 

 ful in woods on 

 beech logs. July to 



Figure 339. Polypcd-us pubescens. White without and within, November 



pubescent and shiny. 



