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In old clm-truuks. Common. Very variable as regards 

 the colour of the pileus when old. Pores always coloured. 



47. P. fraxineus, Fr. ; pileus corky, hard, smooth, flat- 

 tened, white, then rubiginous and brown, at first even, then 

 concentrically sulcato-plicatc, pallid within; pores minute, 

 short, rufous, at first clothed with white sebaceous villosity, as 

 is also the margin. 



At the base of ash-trees. Not uncommon. I have seen 

 this species a yard in diameter, and marked with concentric 

 furrows, indicating the periods of growth. 



48. P. cytisinus, B. ; large, imbricated ; pileus coarsely 

 tuberculated, hard, woody; margin subacute; substance nearly 

 white, as well as the minute pores. — Sow. t. 288. 



At the foot of a laburnum. London. Quite smooth, at 

 least when dry. A foot or more across. Allied to the last. 



49. P. variegatus, Fr. ; pileus corky, hard, smooth, flat- 

 tened, even, zoneless, shining, variegated with orange and bay, 

 pallid within ; pores round, minute, short, unequal and torn, 

 yellowish. — Sow. t. 368. 



On trunks of trees. I am not acquainted with this species. 



50. P. cervinus, P. ; efi'nsed, very broad ; pileus somewhat 

 reflexed, zoned, cinereous-umber, clothed with spongy down ; 

 pores large, various, greyish ; dissepiments rigid. — Myc. Eur. 

 ii. p. 87. 



On fallen branches of beech. Not uncommon. Oswestry, 

 Rev. T. Salwey. King's Clifie, etc. Not properly fawn- 

 coloured. 



51. P. annosus, Fr. ; pileus woody, convex, then flattened, 

 rough with tubercles, in the first season brown, silky, in the 

 second and when old covered with a rigid, smooth, black 

 crust; substance white; margin obtuse, whitish^ as well as 

 the middle-sized, obtuse pores. 



