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More or less triangular in section, 2-5 in. across ; smell 

 slight, pleasant. 



Trametes suaveoleus, Fries, Epicr., p. 491. Horizontal, 

 3-6 in. across, often i in. or more thick at the point of 

 attachment, becoming thinner towards the margin ; pileus 

 villose, whitish, zoneless ; flesh thick, white, corky ; pores 

 \ in. or more in length, irregularly rounded, rather large, 

 white, becoming fuscous ; spores cylindric-oblong, 6 X 2*5 /A ; 

 odour distinctly spicy. 



Daedalea, Pers. Dimidiate or resupinate; firm, corky, 

 or woody; pores becoming elongated and irregularly 

 sinuous, dissepiments corky and often flexible ; basidia 

 tetrasporous ; spores hyaline. 



Daedalea quercina, Pers., Syn. Fung.^ p. 500. Pileus 

 dimidiate, sessile, 4-10 in. across; every part pale wood- 

 colour, upper surface rugulose, uneven ; fleshy, corky, 

 elastic ; pores at first rounded, becoming very much 

 elongated and contorted, broad; dissepiments very thick, 

 flexible. 



Fistulina, Bull. Hymenium formed on the under surface 

 of a fleshy hymenophore, at first warted, the warts develop- 

 ing into cylindrical tubes which remain distinct and free 

 from each other, and bearing the tetrasporous basidia 

 in their interior; conidia produced in cavities of the 

 hymenophore. 



Fistulina hepatica, Fries, Syst. Myc.> i. p. 396. Pileus 

 roundish in outline, or subspathulate, dimidiate, attached 

 by a broad base, or substipitate, blood-red, fleshy, and soft, 

 streaked internally ; tubes at first pallid, then red ; spores 

 broadly elliptical, salmon-colour, 5-6x3-4 /* ; conidia 

 6-10x5 [J-j salmon-colour. 



