212 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



attenuated downwards, but the base is sometimes tuberous, 

 coloured like the pileus ; flesh similarly coloured, rather 

 nauseous ; spores subgloboso-ellipsoid, yellow, 6-7 X 4-5 /x. 



Polyporus cinnamomeus, SaooardOj Michelia, i. p. 362 ; Bre- 

 sadola, Trid., p, 89, t. 99. 



Boletus cinnamomeus, Jacq. Collect, i. p. 116, t. 2. 



On the ground under trees. Generally solitary, rarely 

 Bubcaespitose. Distinct from P. perennis in the larger 

 pores. 



II. APUS. 



Sessile, dimidiate. 

 * Pileus darJc coloured, 



Polystictus versioolor . Fries, (figs. 18, 19, p. 184.) 



Pileus horizontal, thin, coriaceous, rigid, flat, slightly 

 depressed behind, densely velvety, shining, with variously 

 coloured concentric zones ; pores very short, minute, dissepi- 

 ments acute, becoming torn, white, then very pale buff. 



Polyporus versicolor, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 368 ; Sowerby, 

 Fung., t. ,229. 



On trunks, stumps, branches, &c. Often semicircular or 

 flabelliform and imbricated, 2-3 in, across, ^ in. thick, mar- 

 gin thinner ; pileus dark green with brown or orange narrow 

 concentric zones, but colours variable. Hymenium plane, 

 pores white, then cream-colour, often obsolete towards the 

 margin, about ^ mm. across. 



Variable ; sometimes quite resupinate, or with the margin 

 reflexed ; more generally dimidiate and densely imbricated, 

 occasionally spuriously stipitate, more or less lobed, villous, 

 marked with regular concentric smooth shining zones of 

 various colours, sometimes entirely white, and not unfre- 

 quently the whole surface is villous, and the zones mere 

 depressions. (Berk.) 



Tufted, subimbrioated, thin, velvety, not strigose, margin 

 often almost glabrous, pallid. Pores white, shining. The 

 pileus is sometimes yellowish clay-colour ; the zones also 

 vary in colour through rufous, rusty, yellowish, white, &c, 



Var. fuscatus. Fr. 



Zoneless, brown, pores yellow, torn into teeth. (Fries.) 



