PORIA 607 



IV. Unequally effused, membranaceous, thin, mostly incrusting; 

 pores rather large, very short, often vein-like. 



2033. P. reticulate (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 190, fig. 3, as Polyporus 

 reticulatus Fr. Reticulata, netted. 



P. 2-10 cm., snow white, becoming pallid, orbicular, thin, fugacious ; 

 margin byssoid, radiating. Pores white, then yellowish, distant, cup- 

 shaped. Spores "allantoid, 7-9 x 2-3 /u~ Hyphae fragile, not fibulate, 

 4 5/u, broad" Romell. Rotten wood. Jan. Dec. Uncommon. 



2034. P. farinella Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, text figs. p. 321. 



Farinella, mealy. 



P. 1-11 cm., snow white, widely effused, very thin, fugacious when 

 touched; mycelium naked, flocculoso-pulverulent, not interwoven. 

 Pores white, thin, shallow, continuous, unequal, hexagonal, sub- 

 flexuose, intricate. Spores white, oblong elliptical, 6-7 x 3-3-5/u,, 

 1-2-guttulate, "cylindrical, curved, 8-9 x 2-2 -5 p. Hyphae rather 

 straight, 4-5 /x in diam., no clamp connections" Wakef. & Pears. 

 Dead wood, and logs of beech, lime, and fir. July April. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2035. P. collabefacta B. & Br. Collabefacta, brought to ruin. 

 P. 2-8 cm., white, forming Corticium-li^e patches, quite smooth; 



margin obtuse. Pores white, arising from the mere collapsing of the 

 substance, shallow, obtuse. Spores "colourless, elliptic-oblong, 4 x 

 1-5 /*" Massee. Dead wood. Oct. Rare. 



2036. P. blepharistoma B. & Br. @\e<J>api<;, eyelash; a-rofia, mouth. 

 P. 1-5 cm., snow white, very thin; mycelium arachnoid, somewhat 



mealy. Pores white, small, dissepiments thin; orifice of pores ciliato- 

 dentate. Spores white, elliptical, 4-5 x 3/A. Dead wood, and fallen 

 branches. April Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2037. P. subgelatinosa B. & Br. Subgelatinosa, somewhat gelatinous. 

 P. 4 cm., pallid, becoming black, subgelatinous, orbicular, forming 



little pulvinate patches, tomentose at first; margin raised, obtuse. 

 Pores delicate grey, very shallow, angular, acute, entire. Spores 

 "colourless, broadly elliptical, 4 x 2-5-3 p" Massee. Parasitic on 

 Poly par us amorphus. Rare. 



2038. P. terrestris (DC.) Fr. Terrestris, pertaining to the land. 

 P. 2-10 cm., white, effused, very thin, spider-web-flaxy, rather 



tender, fugacious. Pores white, then rufescent, central, extremely 

 small, very shallow, round, or angular, becoming torn. Spores white, 

 subglobose, 4-5 x 4/a, 1-guttulate. Naked soil, and rotten wood. 

 May Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



