POLYPORTJS 577 



**P. and st. glabrous. St. often black at the base. 



1905. P. fuscidulus (Schrad.) Fr. Fuscidulus, somewhat dark. 

 P. 2-5-6 cm., fuscous yellowish, convexo-plane, fleshy, pliant, sub- 

 coriaceous, smooth. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 4 mm., fuscous, then yellow, 

 equal, or thickened at both ends, smooth. Tubes yellowish, adnate, 

 7mm. long; orifice of pores yellowish, subangular, quite entire, 

 minute. Flesh yellowish white, thin, tough. Spores "hyaline, elliptic- 

 oblong, 5-6 x 2 /Li" Massee. On twigs, and chips of wood. Sept. 

 Feb. Eare. 



1906. P. leptocephalus (Jacq.) Fr. \eirr 6^, thin; Ke<f>a\rf, head. 

 P. 2-3 cm., pale, then fawn colour, convexo-plane, pliant, then 



coriaceous, thin, smooth ; margin rather wavy. St. 12-5 cm. x 3 

 4 mm., pallid, smooth. Tubes whitish, adnate; orifice of pores whitish, 

 round, minute, obtuse. Flesh white, leathery. Spores "hyaline, oblong 

 pruniform, 8 /it, guttulate" Quel. On stumps, and dead birch trunks 

 in woods. Oct. March. Rare. 



1907. P. nummularius (Bull.) Quel. Rostk. Polyp, t. 12. 



Nummularius, like money. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., whitish cream colour, then ochraceous and becoming 

 whitish, convexo-plane, hemispherical, rarely umbonate, thin, smooth. 

 St. 1-2 cm. x 3-5 mm., blackish bistre, whitish cream at the apex, 

 equal, or attenuated downwards, firm, piuinose. Tubes white, then 

 yellowish, decurrent, 1-2 mm. long; orifice of pores white, then straw 

 colour, minute, round, ciliate under a lens. Flesh white, hard, woody. 

 Spores white, oblong, 7-9 x 2-5-3 /x, 1-2-guttulate, sometimes curved. 

 Dead twigs, and branches in woods, and wood heaps. Aug. Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



1908. P. picipes Fr. Pers. Icon, pictae rar. fung. t. rv, fig. 1, as 

 Boletus infundibulis. Pix, pitch ; pes, foot. 



P. 5-10 cm., pallid, then chestnut, or pale yellowish livid and chestnut 

 at the disc, cyathiform, or depressed at the disc or behind, fleshy 

 coriaceous, then rigid, smooth; margin scalloped. St. 2-7 x -5-2 cm., 

 brownish bistre, or olivaceous, punctate with black up to the pores, 

 excentric, or lateral, pruinosely velvety, becoming smooth, firm. Tubes 

 white, then yellowish, decurrent, 1-5 mm. long; orifice of pores white, 

 then yellowish, or pinkish, very small, round. Flesh white, tough. 

 Spores hyaline, pruniform, 7-8 x 4//,, 1-guttulate. Smell pleasant. 

 On pollarded willows, and stumps. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1909. P. varius Fr. (= Polyporus cakeolus (BuU.) Quel. ; Polyporus 

 efegr<ms(Bull.)Fr.) Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 202. Farms, variable. 



P. 5-12 cm., pallid ochraceous, then tan colour, or cinnamon streaked 

 with brown, very coriaceous, cyathiform, or plane and depressed at 



