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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Figure 357. Daedalea quercina. 



Dccdalca unicolor. Fr. 



Villose-strigose, cinereous with concolorous zones ; hymenium with flexuous, 

 winding, intricate, acute dissepiments, at length torn and toothed. The pores are 

 whitish cinereous, sometimes fuscous ; variable in thickness, color, and character 

 of hymenium ; sometimes with white margin ; often imbricated and fuliginous 

 when moist. Widely distributed over the states and found on nearly all deciduous 

 trees. 



D&dalea confragosa. Boton. 

 The Willow Daedalea. 



Confragosa means broken, rough. The pileus is rather convex, corky, rough, 

 slightly zonate, reddish-brown, unicolorous, somewhat of a rust-red within. 



The pores are frequently round, like those of the Polyporus, but sometimes 



