POLYPORUS. 



Fr, Hym. Eur. p. 513. Dicks. Crypt. Brit. t. 3. / 2. Krombh. t. 74. / 

 13. Rostk. t. 38. Quel. t. i6./. i. Vent. t. 43. /. i, 2. Pers. Myc. Eur. 

 t. 19. 



GENUS XXIII. Fistulina (fistula, a pipe. From the pipe-like Fistuiina. 

 character of the tubes). Bull. Champ, p. 314. 



Hymenium inferior, at the first dotted over with warts, then 

 protruding cylindrical tubes, which 

 are free and distinct from one an- 

 other. Somewhat fleshy fungi, grow- 

 ing on wood, intermediate between 

 Polyporei and Hydnei. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 522. 



1. F. hepatica Fr. Juicy-fleshy, 

 not rooting. Pileus entire, blood- 

 red ; flesh thick, soft, viscid above, 

 traversed with tenacious fibres, 

 hence variegated - red. Tubes at 

 first pallid. 



Changeable in form, sessile or extended 

 into a lateral stem. 



On living oak. Common in Eng- 

 land. Aug.-Oct. 



Pileus roundish, dimidiate or subspathulate. Substance thick and juicy, 

 marbled like beet-root, distilling a red pellucid juice ; hymenium convex. 

 Taste rather acid. It attains sometimes an enormous size, even nearly 30 Ib. 

 in weight. M.J.B. Spores salmon-colour, nearly round with an oblique 

 apiculus, 3 mk. W.G.S. Edible and nourishing, but rather coarse, and not 

 of a very pleasant flavour. Known as the beef-steak fungus. Slices exactly 

 like beef-steak. Name Vaniccs, of the liver ; diseased in the liver. From 

 its appearance. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 522. Sv. dtl. Sv. t. 25. Berk. Out. p. 

 257. t. 17. f. i. C. Hbk. n. 841. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 690. Grev. t. 270. 

 Ventur. t. 36. /. i, 2. Barla t. 30. /. 4-7. Hogg & Johnst. t. 7. Hussey i. 

 /. 65. Badh. i. /. 12. /. 4; ii. /. 12. / 2. Price f. 22.Huds. Schceff. t. 116- 

 120. Bolt. t. 79. Sow. t. 58. Fl. Dan. t. 1039. Bull. t. 74, 464, 497. 



LXII. Fistulina hepatica. One- 



fifth natural size, 

 times natural size. 



Section two 



GENUS XXIV. Polyporus. Fr. Obs. Myc. i. p. 121. 

 (iro\vs, many ; iropos, a pore.) 



Hymenophore descending and forming a trama between the 

 pores. Hence the pores are connate with the substance of the 



Polyporus. 



