598 GANODERMA. PORIA 



**Spores smooth. 



1989. G. australe (Fr.) Pat. (= Polyporus australis Fr. ; Polyparus 

 vegetus Fr. sec. Pat.) Australe, southern. 



P. 15-30 cm. and more, deep umber chestnut, or paler, convexo- 

 plane, dimidiate, sessile, incrusted on the surface with a sticky 

 resinous coating, which dries up into tubercular ridges, and becomes 

 laccate and shining; margin sterile. Tubes reddish umber, 2-3 cm. or 

 more long, stratose; orifice of pores white, then fuscous, minute, round. 

 Flesh dark umber chestnut, soft, very thin, 2-4 mm. thick. Smell aro- 

 matic. Spores ochraceous, broadly elliptical, truncate at the base, 

 10-12 x 7-8/x, 1-guttulate. Elms. Aug. May. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1990. G. resinaceum Boud. Resina, resin. 

 P. 15-30 cm., yellow, white at the margin, becoming blood-red-umber- 

 chestnut, and finally concolorous, semicircular, somewhat flattened, 

 sessile, rarely stalked, or imbricate, concentrically sulcate, the primary 

 furrows wide, becoming shallower and more crowded with age, viscid, 

 then varnished, very shining, becoming duller and dusted with the 

 spores; margin at first delicately pruinose and rounded, becoming 

 glabrous and more acute. Tubes fuscous cinnamon, -5-3 cm. long, 

 stratose; orifice of pores white, then fuscous cinnamon, minute, round 

 Flesh pale cinnamon, becoming paler, thick, soft. Spores fuscous, ovate 

 oblong, or obovate, truncate at the base, 10-12 x 6-8/A, eguttulate, 

 or 1-guttulate, epispore thick. Oaks, beeches, and pines. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Poria (Pers.) Fr. 

 (Tropo?, a pore.) 



Pileus membranaceous, coriaceous, or corky, entirely resupinate. 

 Tubes round, or angular, often directly inserted on the mycelium. 

 Spores white, or coloured, elliptical, pruniform, globose, subglobose, 

 obovate, elliptic oblong, or cylindrical; smooth, or punctate. Cystidia 

 present, or absent, hyaline, rarely coloured. Growing on wood, rarely 

 on the ground. 



I. Fleshy, soft; pores minute, equal, round. 



*Pores persistently white, or at length becoming 



yellowish or reddish. 



1991. P. vulgaris Fr. Rostk. Polyp, t. 60, as Polyporus vulgaris Fr. 



Vulgaris, common. 



P. 1-30 cm., white, sometimes yellowish, broadly effused, consisting 

 almost entirely of the pores, thin, 1 mm. thick, arid, closely adnate, 

 inseparable, minutely tomentose; margin smooth. Pores white, glisten- 

 ing, 1-2 mm. long, very small, round, subequal, sometimes oblique 



