, POLYPORUS 587 



1944. P. armeniacus Berk. (= Polyporus amorphus Fr. sec. Cke.) 



Armeniaca, apricot. 



P. 8cm., white, broadly effused, suborbicular, confluent; margin 

 minutely downy. Tubes white, then bright buff, changing to deep cinna- 

 mon during drying, short ; orifice of pores concolorous, minute, round, 

 rather irregular, often confined to the centre. Flesh whitish, very thin. 

 Spores "white, elliptical, 7 x 4-5/i" Massee. Fir, and pine bark. 

 Sept. March. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1945. P. adiposus B. & Br. (= Polyporus undatus Pers. sec. Bres.) 

 Lloyd, Synop. Sec. Apus. Gen. Polyp, figs. 662 and 663, as 

 Polyporus undatus. Adiposus, fat. 



P. 1-1-5 cm., white, here and there acquiring a foxy tinge, efhiso- 

 reflexed, often entirely resupinate, obscurely tomentose. Tubes 

 whitish, tinged in places with brown, short, or long; orifice of pores 

 whitish, becoming brownish, either small and round, or angular and 

 torn. Flesh white, waxy, soft. Spores white, globose, 4-5/i, 1-guttu- 

 late. The whole fungus turns brown in drying. Ditch sides, ground 

 beside stumps, and mosses. Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1946. P. albus (Huds.) Fr. Albus, white. 

 P. 3-9 cm., white, becoming greyish, dimidiate, shell-shaped, smooth. 



Tubes white, becoming reddish, short; orifice of pores white, then reddish, 

 small, round, becoming irregular. Flesh white, soft, zoned. Spores 

 "white, oval, 6ju,, punctate" Quel. Willows, and beeches. Nov. 

 March. Rare. 



1947. P. fumosus (Pers.) Fr. Fumosus, smoky. 

 P. 4-12 cm., pale ochraceous, then fuliginous, and becoming black at 



the margin, dimidiate, adnate and dilated behind, imbricate, minutely 

 tomentose, becoming smooth. Tubes whitish cream, then smoky, short; 

 orifice of pores whitish, becoming fuliginous, minute, round. Flesh 

 whitish, firm, fibrous, somewhat zoned. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 

 3-4/z, often with a basal apiculus. Smell strong, or none. Willows, 

 beeches, birches, and poplars. July March. Common, (v.v.) 



var. fragrans (Peck) Rea. Fragrans, scented. 



Differs from the type in the sweet smell, and concolorous margin of 

 the p. Willow, and elm stumps. Sept. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1948. P. adustus (Willd.) Fr. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. t. 18, fig. 2. 



Adustus, swarthy. 



P. 3-7 cm., cinereous pallid, becoming black at the margin, effuso- 

 reflexed, dimidiate, orbicular, imbricate, sometimes entirely resupinate, 

 villose, obsoletely zoned, slightly wrinkled. Tubes cinereous, short; 

 orifice of pores at first whitish pruinose, soon cinereous fuscous, 



