190 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



and completely reflexed, with the hymenium beautifully 

 tinged with lilac. (Berk.) 



Merulius aurantiacus. Klotzsch. 



Effuso-reflexed 1-H in. across, subcoriaceous, tough, dingy 

 white, yellowish, or grey, coarsely tomentose, indistinctly 

 zoned; hymenium minutely rugulose, somewhat porose, 

 orange. 



Merulius aurantiacus, Klotzsch, in Berk., Engl. Fl. v. 

 p. 128 ; Stev., Fung., p. 228. 



On decaying trunks. 



Pileus 1 in. broad ; zones obsolete, hirsuto-tomentose. 

 Nearly allied to Merulius corium. (Berk.) 



DAEDALEA. Pers. (fig. 1, p. 184.) 



Firm, corky or woody ; pores becoming elongated and 

 irregularly sinuous, dissepiments corky and often flexible. 



Daedalea, Pers., Syn., p. 449 ; Stev., Fung. Brit., p. 224. 



Distinguished from Trametes and Polyporus by the very 

 much contorted and sinuous pores ; flesh at first soft and 

 moist, trama present, but not distinct in colour or texture 

 from flesh of pileus. 



Hymenophore descending unchanged into the trama, 

 which is firmer than in Trametes. Pores, when fully formed, 

 labyrinthiform, lacerated, and toothed. In habit the species 

 resemble Trametes, but they are inodorous, and must not be 

 confounded with the species of Polyporus that have elongated, 

 curved pores. (W. G. Smith.) 



* Dimidiate, sessile on a broad or narrow lose. 



Daedalea quercina. Pers. (fig. 1, p. 184.) 

 Every part pale wood-colour; pileus corky, rugulose, 

 uneven ; pores at first rounded, becoming very much con- 

 torted and elongated, broad, dissepiments very thick, 

 flexible. 



Daedalea quercina, Pers., Syn., p. 500 ; Stev., Brit. Fung., 

 p. 224. 



