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stices pilose or distinctly furfuraceous, nearly of the colour of 

 the pileus. A very elegant and distinct fungus, and quite 

 unlike any with which I am acquainted, resembling some- 

 what in habit certain species of Fries' subgenus Lentinus. 

 (Berk.). 



Polyporus brumalis. Fr. 



Pileus 1-4 in. across, thin, pliant then coriaceous and 

 rigid, more or less umbilicate, during the first year smoky- 

 umber and densely villous, in the second year minutely scaly, 

 becoming smooth and paler; pores shallow, large, angular 

 and usually elongated radially, white then yellowish, disse- 

 piments thin, very minutely toothed at the margin ; stem 

 central, 1-2 in. long, 2-4 lines thick, coloured like the stem, 

 velvety or squamulose ; spores colourless, linear-oblong, 

 sometimes slightly curved, 5-6 X 2 /A. 



Polyporus brumalis, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 348 ; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 188. 



On dead branches. Pileus becoming rigid and incurved 

 when dry, the margin often fimbriate when young ; pores 

 more or less decurrent, about ^ mm. long. Distinguished 

 in all its forms from P. lentus by the much smaller spores. 



Autumn and winter, reviving in the spring. (Klotzscb.) 



Pileus 1-4 in. broad, nearly plane, depressed in the centre, 

 dingy, clothed with minute scales, at length fawn-coloured 

 and nearly smooth. Pileus very slightly angular, white, the 

 dissepiments rather thick. Stem f 2 in. high, 24 lines 

 thick, central, velvety, hirsute or squamulose. (Berk.) 



Polyporus fuscidulus. Fr. 



Pileus 12^ in. across, thin, pliant, rather coriaceous, con- 

 vexo-plane, not umbilicate, zoneless, even, smooth, yellowish- 

 brown ; flesh thin, yellowish- white ; pores shallow, subangu- 

 lar, yellowish, largest and slightly elongated near the stem, 

 not decurrent. dissepiments thin, margin quite entire ; stem 

 1-2 in. long, 2 lines thick, equal, quite smooth, brown or 

 yellowish ; spores elliptic-oblong, colourless, 5-6 x 2 p.. 



Polyporus fuscidulus, Fries, Epicr., p. 431 ; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 188. 



On bits of wood, amongst chips, &c. Close to P. brumalis, 

 from which it is distinguished by the glabrous stem and 

 pileus, and the quite entire edge of the dissepiments. The 





