Fig. 497 

 Polyporus ovinus. 



The two following are I think color forms of one and the same species, and yet they appear to 

 distinct ivhenfresh. They have the same very peculiar spores see fig. 498) and the dried speci- 

 s take very much the same dark color, so that they can not be distinguished when dry. 





Fig 498 



POLYPORUS LEUCOMELAS. Pileus 

 fleshy, dark, fuliginous with a dull, slightly silky 

 surface. Stipe usually mesopodial, concolorous 

 with the pileus. Flesh white. Pores irregular, 

 white or light grayish, contrasting ivith the dark 

 pileus and stem.' Spores (fig. 498) peculiar 

 globose, elliptical, tubercular, white. 



This is a rare plant in Europe and I have never 

 seen fresh specimens but once, at a fungus show in 

 Paris. It has been finely illustrated by Gillet, also 

 very well by Fries (Icones t. 1/9). The contrast of 

 color between the pileus and pores is the only dif- 

 ference between it and the next if that can be held 

 to be a difference. This form is not known from 

 the United States. 



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