PORIA 605 



2023. P. Rennyi B. & Br. 



James Renny, an eminent English mycologist. 

 P. 2-6 cm., white, becoming lemon yellow when dry, at first forming 

 a thick, somewhat frothy, then pulverulent mass. Pores white, then 

 yellowish, 2-3 mm, long, sparingly produced, dissepiments thin. 

 Spores "colourless, elliptical, 3 x 1-5 ju," Massee. Pine stumps, and 

 on the ground. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



**Pores flesh colour. 



2024. P. incarnate (A. & S.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 189, fig. 1, as Polyporus 

 incarnatus Fr. Incarnata, flesh colour. 



P. 2-5-10 cm., flesh colour, effused, corky-coriaceous, persistent, 

 firm, smooth; margin white, silky, often shortly reflexed. Pores flesh 

 colour, long, unequal, round, or angular, generally oblique. Spores 

 "elongate, hyaline, 7x2/7," Bres. in Sacc. "Basidia ovoid, sub- 

 globose. Cystidia colourless, terminating in a small point" Pat. 

 Rotten conifer trunks. June Nov. Rare. 



2025. P. niicans (Ehrenb.) Fr. Micans, sparkling. 



P. 2-8 cm., whitish flesh colour, effused, suborbicular, becoming con- 

 fluent, thin, adnate, soft, fugacious; margin white, byssoid. Pores 

 whitish flesh colour, very shallow, very thin, resembling honeycomb, 

 angular, subcrenate. Spores white, sausage-shaped, 78 x 3jLt. Dead 

 wood, and rotten trunks. Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



***Pores violaceous, or purple. 



2026. P. violacea (A. & S.) Fr. Rostk. Polyp, t. 27, fig. 3, as Boletus 

 purpureus Fr. Violacea, violet colour. 



P. 2-10 cm., violaceous, effused, determinate, waxy gelatinous, thin, 

 closely adnate, even, smooth, destitute of a distinct subiculum. Pores 

 violaceous, translucid, very shallow, cellular, or veined, quite entire. 

 Spores tinged yellowish, punctate, elliptical, 7 x 4-4-5ju. Fir stumps, 

 trunks and poles. Aug. May. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2027. P. purpurea Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 189, fig. 2, as Polyporus rhodellus 

 Fr. Purpurea, purple. 



P. 10-30 cm., purple lilac, very broadly and widely effused, the 

 mucedinous, flocculose, white mycelium creeping over the surface of 

 rotten wood ; margin white, silky. Pores purple lilac, 1-2 mm. long, 

 minute, unequal, round, or angular, interruptedly scattered, or con- 

 glomerate. Spores "ellipsoid-oblong, cylindric, curved, 6-7 x 2/u." 

 Sacc. Decayed trunks and stumps of beech, willow, oak, and alder. 

 Oct Feb. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



