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var. variegata (Fr.) Cost. & Dufour. Variegata, with diverse colours. 



Differs from the type in the silky, velvety zones and white flesh. On 



fallen logs of beech and birch. Sept. March. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



L. cinerea (Fr.) Quel. = Daedalea cinerea Fr. 



L. quercina (Linn.) Quel. = Daedalea quercina (Linn.) Fr. 



**Growing on coniferous wood. 



2061. L. saepiaria (Wulf.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1101, t. 1146, fig. A. 



Saepes, a fence. 



P. 3-8 cm., yellow tawny, then date brown with a yellow tawny 

 margin, becoming black when old, dimidiate, lateral, corky coriaceous, 

 hard, convex, becoming plane, sometimes orbicular, more frequently 

 extended longitudinally, sometimes resupinate, zoned, strigosely to- 

 mentose, at length squamulose and pitted. Gills yellowish, becoming 

 umber, extended to the base, very rigid, firm, branched, more or less 

 anastomosing, 2-4 mm. broad, edge entire, or slightly toothed. Flesh 

 tawny. Spores white, cylindrical, curved, 10 x 3-4/z. Coniferous 

 stumps, branches, and worked wood. Jan. Dec. Notuncommon. (v.v.) 



2062. L. abietina (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1101, t. 1146, fig. B. 



Abies, a fir tree. 



P. umber-tomentose, then becoming smooth, effuso-reflexed, often 

 lengthened out to 30 x 1 cm., sometimes resupinate, hoary, coria- 

 ceous, thin, and comparatively soft. Gills yellowish red, becoming 

 glaucous with dense pruina, decurrent in the effused base, distant, 

 simple, unequal, here and there torn into teeth. Flesh concolorous, 

 very thin. Spores white, oblong elliptical, 10 x 4/A, apiculate at the 

 one end. Dressed fir wood. Oct. Rare. 



2063. L. heteromorpha Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 177, fig. 3. 



erep6fjiop<f)o<f, of different shape. 



P. 2-3 cm., whitish, becoming pale, and finally yellowish when old, 

 effuso-reflexed, imbricate, connate, corky soft, then hard, nodular, 

 often pectinately incised at the margin, always gibbose, almost gla- 

 brous with adpressed tufts of hairs, coarsely rugose. Gills white, very 

 firm, thick, very broad, triquetrous, somewhat crowded, somewhat 

 branched, incised, or forming pores, sometimes falling short of the 

 margin. Spores white, "subglobose, 3-5 /u," Karst. Flesh white. On 

 fir stumps. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



Trametes Fr. 



(Trama, the woof.) 



Pileus woody, or corky, dimidiate, or resupinate, sessile. Tubes 

 homogeneous with the substance of the pileus, and not forming a 



