GROUP 5. STIPE EXCENTRIC. PORES LARGE. 



POLYPORUS PES-CAPRAE (Fig. 5 o 4 ).-Pileus fleshy, red- 

 dish-brown, covered with squamose hairs. Flesh white. Stipe ex- 

 centric or sub-lateral, short, white, yellowish at the base. Pores large 

 angular, shallow, white, turning greenish when bruised. Spores ovoid' 

 pinform, 8x 12 mic., hyaline, smooth, tapering to an apiculate base. 



Fig, 504 

 Polyporus Pes-caprae. 



This is a rare species in the Alpine regions of Europe, but is said to be 

 common and used as food in Italy and certain parts of France. It is unknown 

 from northern Europe and England, and is not recorded from the United States. 

 I have always thought that Polyporus retipes as named from our Southern 

 States by Underwood was a good species, but when in writing this article I 

 began to consider the characters which would distinguish it from Pes-caprae, I 

 did not find any. It has the same general habits, surface, pores, stem insertion 

 and spores ( !), and I now believe is the same plant. The large specimen in our 

 Fig. 504 is a co-type specimen. It is a very rare plant in the United States, 

 only known from a few collections from Alabama and a recent collection (the 

 small plants of Fig. 504) from Mrs. Hannah Streeter, collected at Laurel Springs, 

 New Jersey, near Philadelphia. Our description has been drawn from European 

 plants and records, our figures from American specimens. 



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