618 DAEDALEA 



stem, velvety, or strigose, becoming matted when old; margin acute, 

 spreading. Pores white, then yellowish, 4-6 mm. long, unequal, round, 

 or angular, becoming sinuate and daedaliform. Flesh white, spongy, 

 then corky, composed of parallel fibres, compact, thick, fissile. Spores 

 white, subglobose, 5-6 x 4-5/i, minutely punctate. Smell slightly 

 pleasant when dried. Abies trunks, and stumps. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2082. D. unicolor (Bull.) Fr. Bolt. Hist. Fung. t. 163, as Boletus 

 unicolor Bolt. Unicolor, of one colour. 



P. 5-15 cm., cinereous, fuliginous when moist, whitish grey when dry, 

 with zones of the same colour, shell-shaped, dimidiate, usually imbri- 

 cate, villoso-strigose ; margin sometimes whitish. Pores whitish cinereous, 

 sometimes fuscous, very short, labyrinthiform, flexuose, intricate, 

 narrow, acute, at length torn into teeth. Flesh white, coriaceous, thin. 

 Spores white, "6-9 x 3-5 /x" Karst. Stumps, trunks, and rails of 

 birch, beech, maple, oak, willow, Robinia, chestnut, and hornbeam. 

 Jan. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2083. D. polyzona (Pers.) Fr. TroXi;?, many; <ovr}, belt. 

 P. 13-18 cm., yellowish brown, darker or reddish at the base, dimidiate, 



sessile, imbricate, tomentose, with many dark brown zones. Pores 

 pallid wood colour, or buff white, very short, equal, thin, sublabyrinthi- 

 form, sometimes 2-stratose. Flesh buff white, coriaceous, somewhat 

 thin. Jan. Dec. Rare. 

 D. gossypina (Lev.) Quel. = Polystictus gossypinus (Lev.) Massee. 



2084. D. saligna Fr. (= Polyporus salignus Fr. Hym. Eur. ; Polyporus 

 fumosus (Pers.) Fr. sec. Lloyd.) Fr. Icon. t. 181, fig. 1, as Poly- 

 porus salignus *Holmiensis Fr. Saligna, of willows. 



P. 5-15 cm., whitish, dimidiate, imbricate, dilated reniform, sessile, 

 adpressedly villose, depresso-sulcate round the margin; margin swollen, 

 lobed. Pores white, long, round, or intricately flexuose, labyrinthiform, 

 pruinose, thin. Flesh whitish, coriaceous, soft, elastic. Spores white, 

 "elliptic-oblong, 7-8 /x" Quel. Caespitose. Willows. Oct. Feb. Un- 

 common. 



2085. D. confragosa (Bolt.) Fr. Bolt. Hist. Fung. t. 160, as Boletus 

 confragosus Bolt. Confragosa, rough. 



P. 513 cm., unicolorous, brick red fuscous, becoming ferruginous, 

 dimidiate, reniform, constricted at the base, gibbose, convex, sessile, 

 rough, zoned. Pores cinereous pruinose, then rufous fuscous, 520 mm. 

 long, sinuous, narrow, then labyrinthiform, torn, toothed. Flesh 

 wood colour, or reddish, then brown, fibrous, corky, thin. Spores white, 

 sausage-shaped, curved, 7-8 x 2/n. Beech, oak, willow, and service 

 trunks. Oct. Feb. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



