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becoming connate, often considerably elongated, upper edge 

 free, or entirely resupinate. Known by the white pores 

 becoming foxy when bruised. 



Flesh fibrous, soft. Triquetrous, rather moist, base 

 effused, margin acute ; sometimes imbricated. Pores thin, 

 narrow, some round, others elongated and flexuous, toothed, 

 pale flesh-colour. (Fries.) 



Polyporus rutilans. Fr. 



PiLeus fleshy, tough, thin soft, at flrst villous then almost 

 smooth, zoneless, tawny-cinnamon becoming paler, inside 

 similarly coloured ; tubes short, pores minute, thin, equal, 

 acute, cinnamon. 



Polyporus rutilans, Fries, Syst. Myc. i., p. 363 ; Cooke, 

 Hdbk., p. 270. 



On fallen branches. 



Variable in form, but thin, not pulvinate and convex 

 above and below, as in Polyporus nidulans. Pileus at length 

 dry, friable, the extreme margin inflexed, but not incurved 

 and fimbriate, as in Polyporus cuticularis. Pores rather 

 shining. (Fries.) 



When fresh very soft, of a beautiful reddish-grey, and 

 with a powerful but pleasant odour, liKe that of aniseed. 

 (Berk. & Broome.) 



Perhaps a variety of Polyporus nidulans. Pileus soft, rather 

 fragile, convex, base rather effused, margin obtuse, unequal. 

 Pores shining-white when young, soon changing to the colour 

 of the pileus, medium-sized, sometimes flexuous. (Fries.) 



Polyporus destructor. Fr. 



From 2-6 ia. long, effuso-reflexed, fragile, rugose, rather 

 undulated, brownish- white, substance fleshy, watery, zoned ; 

 tubes 4-7 mm. long, pores white, subrotund, dissepiments 

 becoming torn into teeth. 



Polyporus destructor. Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 359 ; Stev., 

 Brit. Fung., p. 199. 



On wood, especially that has been worked, which is 

 softened and destroyed as by Merulius laerymans. Pores 

 i-^ mm. diameter, much crowded, forming, with the excep- 

 tion of the uniting membrane, the whole of the fungus. 

 Sometimes almost resupinate. 



