PANUS 535 



Gills soft, then coriaceous, decurrent, or arising from a central point. 

 Spores white, cylindrical, or elliptical; smooth, continuous. Cystidia 

 present, or absent. Growing on wood, often caespitose. 



*P. irregular. St. excentric. 



1766. P. conchatus (BuU.) Fr. (= Panus flabelliformis (Schaeff.) 

 Quel.) Krombh. t. 42, figs. 1, 2. Conchatus, sheU-shaped. 



P. 5-10 cm., cinnamon, then becoming pale, fleshy-pliant, thin, un- 

 equal, excentric, or dimidiate, flaccid, squamulose when old. St. 12 x 

 8 mm., pale, unequal, often compressed, base pubescent. Gills 

 whitish, or pale flesh colour, at length ochraceous wood-colour, deeply 

 decurrent in parallel lines, here and there branched, crisped when dry. 

 Flesh white. Spores white, cylindrical, 6 x 3ja, 1-2-guttulate. On 

 beech, and poplar stumps and willows. June Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



1767. P. tomlosus (Pers.) Fr. (= Panus flabelliformis (Schaeff.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 1096, t. 1149, fig. B. Torulus, a tuft of hair. 



P. 5-8 cm., somewhat flesh colour, varying rufescent-livid, and be- 

 coming violet, entire, but very excentric, fleshy-pliant, then coriaceous, 

 plano-infundibuliform. St. 2-5 x 2-2-5 cm., pale, covered with grey 

 often violaceous down, oblique, tough, firm. Gills reddish, then tan 

 colour, decurrent, subdistant, simple, separate behind. Flesh pallid. 

 Spores white, cylindrical, 6 x 3ju., 1-2-guttulate. On old stumps of 

 birch and pollard willows. May Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



1768. P. rudis Fr. (= Panus hirtus (Seer.) Quel.) Quel. Jur. et Vosg. 

 i, t. 14, fig. 1. Rudis, rough. 



P. 5-10 cm., ochraceous fawn, or reddish, fleshy, coriaceous, then 

 corky, thin, unequal, excentric, or dimidiate; margin incurved, lilac, 

 and bristling with hairs. St. 1-2 x 2-3 cm., ochraceous fawn, unequal, 

 shaggy with a rough, hairy, lilac velvet. Gills whitish pink, then pale 

 ochraceous fawn, very decurrent, narrow. Flesh white. Spores white, 

 cylindrical, 5-6 x 3/A, 1-3-guttulate. Cystidia "on edge of gill 

 cylindrical-clavate, 45-50 x 12/>t, very thick walled" Rick. Beech 

 stumps. May. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**St. definitely lateral. 



1769. P. stipticus (Bull.) Fr. (= Panus far inaceus Schum. sec. Quel.) 



crruTTTiKO"?, astringent. 



P. 14 cm., cinnamon, becoming pale, thin, elastic, reniform, some- 

 times infundibuliform and lobed, pruinose, the cuticle breaking up into 

 furfuraceous scales. St. 5-20 x 2-3 mm., pale, coriaceous, dilated at 

 the apex, ascending, pruinose. Gills ochraceous, or cinnamon, ending 

 determinately, thin, very narrow, crowded, connected by veins. Flesh 

 concolorous. Spores white, elliptical, 4-5 x 2-2-5/i. Cystidia "on 



