224 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



About the roots of decayed trees, stumps, &c., especially 

 pine. Very irregular in growth, often forming a continuous 

 stratum following the irregularities of the wood, and entirely 

 resupinate, at others with several pilei more or less imbri- 

 cated. Pileus hard, coarsely radiato-rugose, margin and 

 pores white. 



Fomes applanatus. Wallr. 



Horizontal, semicircular, attached by a broad base ; pileus 

 flattened, tuberculose, indistinctly zoned, outer crust rigid, 

 at length brittle, cinnamon or brown, then often greyish 

 with age ; rather shining, margin tumid, white, then cinna- 

 mon ; flesh thick, floccoso and soft ; stratum of pores short, 

 subferruginous, exceedingly minute, roundish, surface of 

 porous stratum pure white, brownish when bruised. 



Polyporus applanatus, Wallr., D. Kr. Fl. ii. p. 591 ; Berk., 

 Outl., p. 245. 



On trunks. Sometimes imbricated, 2 in. or more in thick- 

 ness, 4-8 in. across ; distinguished by the brown, tubercu- 

 lose, and vaguely concentrically zoned, glabrous pileus, and 

 the even white hymenial surface with very minute pores. 



Fomes conchatus. Fr. 



Thin, rigid, effuso-reflexed, the reflexed portion somewhat 

 shell-shaped ; pileus dark brown, concentrically grooved, 

 minutely silky, margin acute, pores short, very minute, 

 coloured like the pileus ; spores 4-5 /A ; cystidia scanty, 

 15-30 x 7-9 /*. 



Polyporus conchatus, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 376; Stev., 

 Brit, i'ung., p. 206. 



On trunks of willow, &c. From 2-3 in. across, about ^ 

 in. thick, hard, altogether inside and outside dark brown, 

 with a tinge of ferruginous or chocolate; often imbricate, 

 sometimes entirely resupinate. 



Closely allied to F. igniarius, but smaller and thinner, 

 closely concentrically sulcate, concave below, margin acute. 

 (Fries.) 



Fomes variegatus. Seer. 



Pileus between corky and woody, rather flattened, even, 

 glabrous, zoneless, shining, orange variegated with bay ; 



