POLYPORUS 575 



minute, entire. Flesh fuscous umber, 2 mm. thick, firm. Spores 

 hyaline, " oblong pruniform, 9-10 x 2-5-3 fj," Sacc. Cystidia coloured, 

 abundant. Coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



**P. silky, or glossy. Cystidia wanting. 



1898. P. Montagnei Fr. (= Polystictus cinnamomeus (Jacq.) Sacc. 

 sec. Lloyd.) Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 11, as Polystictus 

 Montagnei Fr. 



J. F. C. Montagne, the eminent French mycologist. 

 P. 3-8 cm., ferruginous, cyathiform, irregular, uneven, zoneless, 

 tomentose, becoming smooth; margin thin. St. 2-3 cm. x 5-9 mm., 

 concolorous, unequal, pubescent. Tubes yellowish white, then ferrugi- 

 nous, short, decurrent; orifice of pores large, round, obtuse, entire. 

 Flesh ferruginous, somewhat corky, thick. Spores hyaline, ovoid 

 pruniform, 5-6 x 4-5^,, punctate. Woods, and heaths. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1899. P. cinnamomeus (Jacq.) Sacc. Lloyd, Myc. Notes, Polyporoid 

 Issue, no. 1, fig. 200. Cinnamomeus, cinnamon. 



P. 2-3 cm., bright cinnamon, piano-depressed, then subinfundibuli- 

 form, somewhat corky, flaccid, velvety becoming glabrous, silky, 

 shining, at first with darker fuscous zones, then becoming tawny, 

 and zoneless. St. 3-4 cm. x 4-5 mm., concolorous, attenuated at the 

 base, or somewhat bulbous, velvety. Tubes fuscous cinnamon, becoming 

 tawny when dry, adnate, 12-5 mm. long; orifice of pores greyish, 

 somewhat large, pentagonal, or hexagonal. Flesh concolorous, spongy. 

 Spores yellowish, broadly elliptical, with an oblique apiculus, 67 x 4- 

 5/x. Smell unpleasant. Under trees, and burnt places. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



1900. P. perennis (Linn.) Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 89, no. 197. 



Perennis, perennial. 



P. 3-8 cm., cinnamon, then date brown, often becoming whitish with 

 age, hemispherical, plane, or cyathiform, coriaceous, tough, thin, 

 zoned, velvety, becoming smooth; margin fimbriate, then entire. St. 

 2-5-5 cm. x 3-8 mm., tawny, or concolorous, attenuated upwards, 

 often bulbous at the base, velvety, firm. Tubes tawny, decurrent, 

 2-3 mm. long; orifice of pores silvery, becoming tawny, minute, an- 

 gular, acute, then torn. Flesh tawny, fibrillosely leathery, tough. 

 Spores hyaline, elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5/z, 1-guttulate. Charcoal heaps, 

 and about stumps. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



II. P. thin, hemispherical, or excentric, firm, squamulose, villose, or 

 smooth. St. generally thin, corky, rarely branched, sometimes 

 black at the base. Flesh leathery, white. Tubes heterogeneous', pores 

 round, or polygonal, small, white. Spores hyaline. Perennial. 

 Growing on wood. 



