576 POLYPORUS 



*P. at first villose, or squamulose. 



1901. P. brumalis (Pers.) Fr. Brumalis, pertaining to winter. 

 P. 2-10 cm., fuliginous, becoming pale and tan colour with age, 



convex, then plane, more or less umbilicate, fleshy pliant, then coria- 

 ceous, villose, or squamulose, becoming smooth; margin fimbriato- 

 ciliate, or velvety. St. 1-5-5 cm. x 4-8 mm., concolorous, velvety, or 

 squamulose. Tubes white, decurrent, 1 mm. long; orifice of pores 

 white, becoming yellowish, round, angular, or oblong, small, toothed. 

 Flesh whitish, very firm, thin at the margin. Spores white, oblong, 

 often curved, 6-8 x 2-3/>t, 1-2-guttulate. Dead branches, and twigs 

 in woods, and wood heaps. Sept. May. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1902. P. arcularius (Batsch) FT. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 16. 



Arcula, a casket. 



P. 13 cm., fuscous, becoming yellow with age, convex, subumbilicate, 

 pliant, then coriaceous, at first covered with fuscous squamules, then 

 becoming smooth and ochraceous; margin strigose. St. 1-2-5 cm. x 

 1-2 mm., greyish fuscous, or bistre, subsquamulose, becoming smooth. 

 Tubes whitish, adnato-decurrent, 1-2 mm. long; orifice of pores white, 

 becoming tawny, oblong, rhomboidal, thin, rather large, entire. Flesh 

 white, thin, leathery. Spores white, globose, 3/x. Dead twigs, and 

 branches in woods, and shrubberies. Sept. May. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1903. P. lentus Berk. Berk. Outl. t. 16, fig. 1. (? = 

 tubarius Quel.) Lentus, pliant. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., reddish brown, becoming ochraceous, convex, umbili- 

 cate, thin, tough, furfuraceo-squamulose, becoming smooth. St. 1- 

 2-5 cm. x 4-9 mm., concolorous, central, or excentric, straight, or 

 curved, hispid, or furfur 'aceous, often covered with pores to the base. 

 Tubes white, decurrent, 2-3 mm. long; orifice of tubes white, large, 

 angular, irregular. Flesh white, leathery, tough. Spores "white, 

 elliptic fusiform, 12 x 4-5 /A" Massee. Dead roots, fallen branches, 

 and gorse stems. April Sept. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1904. P. melanopus (Swartz) Fr. /LteXa?, black; TTOI;?, foot. 

 P. 3-10 cm., white, then yellowish fuscous or greyish bistre, convexo- 



plane and umbilicate, then infundibuliform, fleshy pliant, at first 

 minutely fiocculose, or pruinose. St. 2-4 cm. x 6-10 mm., dark brown, 

 bistre, or black, gradually incrassated upwards, or thickened down- 

 wards, excentric, minutely velvety. Tubes white, decurrent, -5-1 mm. 

 long; orifice of pores white, minute, round, fimbriate under a lens. 

 Flesh white, thick, soft. Spores white, oblong, or pip-shaped, 7-8 x 

 3/n, 1-guttulate. Smell often pleasant. Dead pine roots, and branches 

 in woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



