316 AGARIC AC E^ Lenzites 



1453. L. ssepiaria Fr. (from the habitat, fences ; scepis, a hedge) a b c. 

 P. thin, flat, lobed, strigoso-tomentose to squamulose, zoned ; 



tawny-yellow to brown, black when old. G. reaching to and 

 anastomosing at the base, rigid, firm, yellowish to umber. 

 Flesh, tawny to dark sienna. 

 Often imbricate. Trunks, fences, pine. Jan.-Dec. Diam. 5 in. 



1454. L. abietina Fr. (from its habitat, firs, abies) a b c. 



P. thin, flat, tomentose, becoming smooth, umber or yellowish- 

 rich-brown or deep umber-sienna, zoned dark umber; marg. 

 bright sienna-yellow, or wholly vinous. G. reaching the base, 

 distant, simple, unequal, not anastomosing but torn into teeth 

 at the base, salmon or yellowish-brown. 



Imbricate. Chiefly dressed fir, deal, trunks, branches. Oct. Diam. 3 in. 

 Sometimes remaining resupinate. 



1455. L. heteromorpha Fr. (from its varied shapes; Gr. heteros, 



different, morphe, shape) a b c. 



P. gibbous, rugose, thin to thick, yellowish- or buff-white, or 

 colour of washleather. G. reaching the base, branched, 

 crowded, often broken into teeth, sometimes effused, colour 

 as P. 



Imbricate. Fences, sticks, chips, bark, pine. Oct. Diam. 3 in., some- 

 times effused to 7 in. or more. 



FAM. II. POLYPORACE^I. 



Hymenium inferior, in resupinate species superior, consisting of 

 tubes with poriform orifices which are round or angular, sometimes 

 sinuous or torn. 



Fleshy, coriaceous or woody fungi, intermediate between Agari- 

 cacea and Hydnacea, connected with the former by Trametes and 

 Dadaleci) and with the latter by Fistulina. Species 1456 1686 



The sequence of the genera and species is almost identical with 

 the latest views of Fries as expressed in his Hymenomycetes Europ&i, 

 1874. An exception is made in the genus Polyporus, which is here 

 broken up into four genera Polyporus, Fomes, Polystictus and Poria, 

 as given by Cooke in 1885 and 1886, in his Pracursores ad Mono- 

 graphia Polypororum, in Grevillea, xiii., pp. 80 and 114, xiv., pp. 

 17, 77 and. 109, and xv., p. 19, with additions and corrections on 

 p. 50. Cooke based his work on the Nova Symbols Mycologies 

 of Fries, published in 1851, but in this Fries only suggested that one 

 section of Polyporus should be elevated to generic rank, viz. Polystictus. 

 Saccardo, in his Sylloge Fungorum, vii., 1888, immediately adopted 

 Cooke's views. It is in deference to the laborious work of Cooke 

 that the old genus Polyporus is here broken up into four. 



