602 POEIA 



*****Pores ferruginous. 



2008. P. umbrina Fr. Kostk. Polyp, t. 27, fig. 6, as Polyporus ferrugi- 

 nosus Fr. Umbrina, umber-coloured. 



P. 5-8 cm., rufous umber, effused, up to 12 mm. thick, determinate, 

 undulato-tubercular; margin paler, distinct, smooth. Pores concolorous, 

 2-4 mm. long, minute, somewhat round, unequal. Spores hyaline, 

 "ovoid, 6-7 /A" Quel. Trunks, and dead wood. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



II. Flesh thin ; pores unequal, angular, or rather large. 

 *Pores white, or yellowish, and becoming yellowish red or greenish. 



2009. P. radula (Pers.) Fr. Radula, a rasp. 

 P. 28 cm., white, effused, thin, made up of the naked, tomentose 



mycelium, closely compacted, soft, separable, villose beneath. Pores 

 white, then yellowish, -52 mm. long, sometimes oblique, medium sized, 

 angular, toothed, pubescent when young. Spores white, elliptical, 

 5-6 x 3-4/i, 1-guttulate. Dead branches, and bark of willow, oak, 

 aspen, hornbeam, beech, and fir. Aug. March. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2010. P. vaporaria (Pers.) Fr. Vaporarium, a steam pipe. 

 P. 5-10 cm., white, effused, innate, inseparable, the white floccose 



mycelium creeping into the wood. Pores white, then cream colour, 

 5-1 mm. long, large, angular, toothed, forming a continuous, firm, per- 

 sistent stratum. Spores white, "allantoid, 6 x 1-5-2 /x" Romell. Dead 

 branches, and worked wood of conifers. Jan. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. secernibilis B. & Br. Secernibilis, separable. 



Differs from the type in being separable. Shining white, becoming 



honey colour when dry. Fir leaves under moss. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



2011. P. Eyrei Bres. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 14. 



Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, a former president of the British Myco- 



logical Society. 



P. 3-10 cm., yellowish, effused; margin subtomentose, soon similar; 

 subiculum very thin, scarcely visible. Pores concolorous, 1 mm. long, 

 straight, or oblique, oblong, or sinuate, entire. Spores hyaline, 06- 

 ovate, 4-5 x 3-3*5 p,, 1-guttulate; basidia clavate, 12-15 x 4 /A. Cystidia 

 clavate, or fusoid-ventricose, 15-18 x 4-5/Lt; hyphae septate, often 

 nodular on one side, 2-3/x thick. Oak wood. May. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2012. P. sericeo-mollis Romell. Romell, in Arkiv f. Bot. xi, t. 2, 

 fig. 7, and Svensk Bot. Tidsk. 1912, Bd. 6, H. 3, fig. 4. 



Sericeus, silky; mollis, soft. 



P. 1-4 cm., white, effused, very soft, 1-3 mm. thick, loosely ad- 

 herent; margin often separating and reflexed, incurved when dry. 



