POLYPOREI. ^/y 



H. Yersipelles. — Tubes minute, round, equal, crowded together 

 in a convex stratum ivhich is free Jrom the stem ; spores ferrv^ 

 ginous. 



40. B. versipellis, Fr. (p. 235) ; 2-5 in. Epping 

 Forest. 



41. B. scaber, Fr. (p. 235); 2-7 in. Epping Forest. 



42. B. duriusculus, Kalckb. ; pileus 2—5 in.^ globose 

 then hemispherical, soft, smooth, viscid when moist, whitish 

 tawny then dirty chestnut colour or olivaceous ; flesh white, 

 becoming coppery-red, passing into greyish-violet ou expo- 

 sure to air ; stem attenuated at base, ventricose, whitish, 

 normally densely punctate with delicate umber squamules ; 

 tubes free, elongated, thin, livid, becoming tawny; pores 

 white, at length same colour. 



In woods. Epping Forest. Said to be " edible and 

 delicious." 



43. B. cruentatus, Vent. ; pileus 3 in., convex, rather 

 velvety, then plane, smooth, at length rugulose, gilvous ; 

 stem thick, rather bulbous, attenuated downwards into a 

 rooting base, and upwards into pileus ; flesh yellowish, 

 turning blood red, especially near top of stem when cut ; 

 pileus stained red where touched or bruised ; tubes adnata ; 

 pores small, simple, yellow. — Vent. Mic. t. 4i^, f. 3—4. 



Under beech. Kew. Odour foetid. 



I. Hyperpodii. — Tubes adiuite to stem, lohitish ; spores rosy 

 then irhite fiesh-colour. 



44. B. felleus, Bull. (p. 236) ; 3-4 in. Epping Forest. 



45. B. alutarius, Fr. (p. 235). 



