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pallid within ; tubes short, pores rounded, minute, unequal, 

 torn, yellowish. 



Polyporus variegatus, Secretan, Myc. Fl. Suis., n. 45 ; Fries, 

 Hym. Eur., p. 563 ; Sow., t. 368 ; Cooke, Hdbk., p. 277. 



On trunks. Sowerby's figure has the pilei dimidiate and 

 imbricated, 3-5 in. across, margin wavy, pileus tawny orange, 

 attached by a broad decurrent base. 



Femes ribis. Fr. 



Horizontal, imbricated, coriaceous, rigid, flattened, almost 

 even, velvety, ferruginous then umber, margin acute ; pores 

 short, minute, naked, and with the thin flesh, fulvous. 



Polyporus ribis, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 375; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 206. 



On currant and gooseberry bushes. Imbricated, from 2-4 

 in. across, pores about 1 line long. Perennial, stratose. 

 Pileus often indistinctly zoned, but not concentrically sulcate 

 as in F. conchatus ; the latter is not so distinctly velvety as the 

 present species. 



Imbricated, 3 in. or more broad, thin, zoned and velvety, 

 of a rather rich tawny-brown, the margin paler and brighter. 

 Substance soft, silky, fit for making tinder. Pores short, 

 larger than in the foregoing species (^ = Fomes igniarius), 

 brownish-grey. (Berk.) 



Imbricated, unequal, up to 4 in. broad, substance spongy, 

 soft, foxy-yellow, not thick, the base often thinner than the 

 margin. Velvety and yellowish when young, then almost 

 glabrous, indistinctly zoned. Pores plane. 1 line long. 

 (Fries.) 



Fomes carneus. Nees. 



Pileus effuso-reflexed or dimidiate, 2-6 in. long, 1-2 in. 

 broad, woody, hard, rather thin, glabrous, zoneless, radiately 

 rugose, dingy flesh-colour, flesh similarly coloured; tubes 

 short, stratose in old specimens, pores roundish, minute, 

 decurrent at the expanded base, paler than the pileus. 



Polyporus carneus, Nees, in Nov. Act. Nat. Curios, xiii. t. 3 ; 

 Stev., Brit. Fung., p. 208. 



On trunks, stumps, &c. Pores -^ mm. across. Often 

 extending for several inches, the reflexed portion remaining 

 narrow, imbricated, rarely solitary. Smaller and thinner 



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