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FETCH ; 
Lloyd regards this as Polyporus sulphur ms, from 
which perhaps it differs only in colour. In one 
instance, where a stump on the top of a bank produced 
the normal pallid form, a piece which grew from 
au exposed root on the side of the bank was 
orange-red. 
Polyporus mesotalpæ Lloyd. 
4467, Peradeniya, October, 1914 (Lloyd type) ; also 
Peradeniya, June, 1907, &c. 
Mesopodial, with a thick stem ; stem up to 10 cm. high 
and 6 cm. diameter ; pileus up to 40 X 20 cm. and 10 cm. 
thick, usually tuberculate and lobed, depressed in the 
centre. At first wholly white, becoming deep choco- 
late ; surface minutely velvety, with a black crustaceous 
layer beneath. Context white when fresh, watery, 
turning red when cut. The whole fungus turns deep 
blackish-brown if handled in the white stage. Stalk 
deep chocolate-brown, minutely velvety. Pores 
minute, watery when fresh, forming a distinct layer 
about 2 mm. deep. 
The species grown at Peradeniya on rotten stumps. 
The change of colour occurs rather late ; specimens are 
usually brought me in the white stage and change 
colour in the laboratory in a few hours. I have not 
yet succeeded in obtaining a painting or a spore print, 
as it is a most difficult species to dry, and specimens 
are usually smothered in moulds in a day or two. 
Polyporus pilosus n. sp. 
2459, Peradeniya, May, 1907. 
Pileus circular, regularly convex, 13 cm. diameter, 
densely clothed with grayish-white, ereet, fasciculate 
tomentum, which turns dark gray in drying ; margin 
incurved. Flesh white, spongy, thick, about 2 cm. 
thick near the stalk. Stalk central, 4*5 cm. high, 
2*5 cm. diameter at the base, expanding upwards into 
the pileus, dirty white, tough exteriorly, spongy 
within. Pore surface white, even, descending on the 
stem ; stratum of pores distinct from the flesh of the 
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