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with dense strigose tawny pubescence. Pores brownish^ with 

 large acuminate teeth^ giving the hymenium an hydnoid ap- 

 pearance. 



East Indies. Dr. Wight. It is allied to Pol. suaveolens. The 

 specimen before me is resupinate^ wdth the margin broadly 

 reflexed. The portion of the pileus next to the tubes, which is 

 very thin, is corky ; the rest consists of a spongy mass of fibres 

 like Ozonium auricomum of authors. 



38. P. [Apus, Ann* Sub.) betulinus, Fr. On birch. North 

 America. Dr. Richardson. 



39. P. [Apus, Ann, Cor.) caperatus, Berk. Hard, ligneo- 

 coriaceous, thin, effused at the base. Pileus zoned, variegated 

 with brown, at first velvety, at length quite naked, some- 

 times shining. Hymenium pale fawn-coloured ; pores minute, 

 nearly round, dissepiments thin. Pileus 4 — 5^ inches across, 

 3 inches long, sessile with the vertex sometimes prominently 

 marked with narrow concentric fasciee, some of which as the 

 fawn-coloured down disappears become wrinkled. Substance 

 hard, brownish bay. Very smooth specimens have a sericeous 

 gloss. 



Mauritius. Mr. Telfair. This species is more properly 

 biennial, but it accords, though hard and woody, better with 

 the coriaceous section than any other allied to P. gilvus. 



40. P. [Apus. Ann. Cor.) glabrescens, Berk. Suberoso-co- 

 riaceous, rather thick. Pileus pale ochre, very minutely vel- 

 vety, zoned ; pores minute, round, pale cinnamon ; dissepi- 

 ments thin. Pileus 6 inches broad, 4 inches long, sessile or 

 furnished with a short lateral stem, much incurved when dry. 

 Substance wood-coloured. Much thicker than most of the 

 species in its section, in which it is placed on account of its 

 zoned pileus. 



Mauritius. Mr. Telfair. 



41. P. [Apus. Ann. Cor.) subcinereus. Berk. Effuso-reflexed, 

 suberoso-coriaceous, imbricated ; pileus dirty white, minutely 

 downy ; margin acute, obsoletely zoned, barren ; pores minute, 

 short, cinereous. Forming longitudinally effused imbricated 

 masses, with the margin more or less reflexed. Pileus ^ of an 

 inch long, sometimes, but rarely, quite free and reniform, soft 

 to the touch, minutely downy, with two or three indistinct 



