POLYPORUS 579 



color ous, incrassated upwards. Tubes white, then yellowish green, very 

 decurrent, -5 mm. long; orifice of pores yellowish, angular, very 

 irregular, finally torn. Flesh white, thick, soft. Spores dirty green, 

 broadly fusiform, 15-18 x 7-8jii. Under pines. Sept. Kare. (v.v.) 



IV. P. simple, rarely compound. St. generally thick. Flesh soft, or 

 leathery, white. Tubes heterogeneous; pores honey-comb-like, broad. 

 Spores white or pale coloured. Annual. Growing on the ground, or 

 on wood. 



*P. velvety, hispid or squamulose. 



1914. P. squamosus (Huds.) Fr. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 207; and 

 forma erecta Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 133. Squamosus, scaly. 



P. 10-60 cm., ochraceous, variegated with broad, adpressed, centri- 

 fugal, darker, fuscous scales, fan-shaped, or hemispherical, convex, 

 then plane and at length concave, often umbilicate when young, 

 fleshy pliant, often imbricate and flattened. St. 15 x 1-5 cm., ochra- 

 ceous, base blackish, excentric, lateral, or wanting, apex reticulate. 

 Tubes white, then yellowish, adnato-decurrent, 5-10 mm. long; orifice 

 of pores pallid, at first minute, then large, angular, and torn. Flesh 

 white, soft, becoming leathery, thick. Spores white, oblong, 10-12 x 

 4-5 p, 1-2-guttulate. Smell strong. Said to be edible. On trunks of 

 ash, apple, walnut, maple, elm, yew, oak, birch, lime, etc. April 

 Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1915. P. Boucheanus (Klotzsch) Fr. (= Polyporus Forquignoni Quel. 

 sec. Lloyd.) Augustus Bouche. 



P. 3-7 cm., bright tawny, or yellowish, plane, or cyathiform, fleshy, 

 smooth, then breaking up into floccose, erect squamules. St. 3-4-5 x 1- 

 2 cm., concolorous, becoming fuscous at the base, excentric, or lateral, 

 rarely central, tomentose. Tubes whitish becoming yellow, adnato- 

 decurrent, 2-5 mm. long; orifice of pores yellowish, large, angular, 

 toothed. Flesh yellowish, soft, becoming firm. Spores white, oblong, 

 or oblong fusiform, 14-16 x 6/z, 1-guttulate. On dead oak branches, 

 twigs, and burnt gorse stems. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1916. P. Michelii Fr. Rostk. Polyp, t. 1. 



Pier Antonio Micheli, an early mycologist. 



P. 5-10 cm., yellowish white, depressed, repand, fleshy pliant, 

 minutely silky, subsquamulose. St. 2-5 x 1 cm., white, becoming fus- 

 cous at the base, somewhat lateral, bulbous, rough. Tubes white, 

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

 across, round, or oblong. Flesh white, firm. Spores " almost colourless, 

 elongato-elliptical, 16-17 x 7/u," Massee. Trunks, and stumps, es- 

 pecially willow. Sept. Rare. 



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