232 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Polyporus rufescens. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, soft and spongy, unequal, strigose or 

 hairy, flesh-colour, flesh thin, coloured; pores rather short, 

 large, more or less sinuated and torn, pale flesh-colour ; stem 

 short, subcentral or almost lateral, irregular in form ; spores 

 broadly elliptical, almost colourless, 6 X 4-5 p.. 



Polyporus rufescens, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 351 ; Stev., 

 Brit. Fung., p. 189. 



Boletus biennis, Sow., t. 191. 



On stumps, &c. Distinguished amongst the hairy, soft- 

 fleshed species by the whitish-pink hymenium, and the large, 

 sinuous, torn pores that are often 1 mm. wide, and 2-4 mm. 

 long. 



Habit of growth resembling that of Polyporus Schiceinitzii, 

 but it is smaller, softer, and different in colour both exter- 

 nally and internally. (Fries.) 



The stipes (occasionally central and covered with naked 

 pores) is somewhat tomentose. Pores varying into sinuses 

 and labyrinths very irregularly. The pileus is rather hispid. 

 It hardens in drying, becoming woody. (Sow.) 



In the two specimens figured by Sowerby, the stem is in 

 both instances distinctly lateral, about 1^ in. long, pileus 

 pale brown, pores pale pink. 



Pileus convex when young, at length plane or even de- 

 pressed, velvety or hispid, 13 in. broad, irregular, furnished 

 underneath with large, irregular, very flexuous or labyrinth- 

 like pores, greyish or flesh-coloured. Stipes when present 

 very irregular, unequal, even grotesque, 1-2 in. high, of 

 various thickness, ferruginous, sometimes wanting, when the 

 pileus becomes dimidiate, as growing from the side of a rotten 

 post; in this situation it is even sometimes imbricated. 

 When dry it is hard and woody. (Grev.) 



II. PLEUEOPUS. 



Stem simple, excentric (sometimes almost central}, or lateral, 

 base of stem black. 



Polyporus squamosus. Fr. 



Pileus broadly flabelliform, fleshy, pliant, dingy pale 

 yellow or pallid, variegated with large, adpressed, centri- 



