CEYLON POLYPOm, 
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4810, Peradeniya, May, 1916, &c. 
White, effused, covering dead trunks of trees for a 
length of several feet ; margin narrow and tomentose ; 
pores at first soft and watery, with thick dissepiments 
which become thin and rigid on drying, minute, 
angular when dry, up to 2 mm. long. Basal layer a 
thin weft of hyphse, almost absent. 
This is a much stouter species than Poria vaporaria 
to which Berkeley and Broome referred it. In drying 
it splits owing to the shrinkage of the hyménium. 
When growing on a vertical surface, the upper edge 
simulates a narrow dimidiate pileus, radially fibrillose, 
tomentose behind ; this is not evident on the shrunken 
dried specimens. 
Albo ; margine angusto, tomentoso ; poris vivo 
mollibus aquosisque, dissepimentibus crassis ; sicco 
poris rigidis, minutis, ad 2 mm. long., dissepimentibus 
tenuibus ; contextu tenuissimo. 
Poria glaucescens n. sp. 
3653, Hakgala, May, 1913. 
At first amber-brown (Ridgway) at the margin, 
pores darker ; becoming entirely greenish-gray when 
old. Margin slightly swollen, nodular, tomentose. 
Pores small, 0*1 mm. diameter, irregular, dark brown 
in section, up to 3 mm. long. Basal layer very thin, 
almost wanting. No setæ. Spores small, yellow 
brown, oval, 4 X 2 pi, or globose, 3 ^ diameter. 
Cracks when old and become reticulated with amber- 
brown tomentose lines, due to new growth through the 
cracks. 
The small, coloured spores resemble those of Pomes 
caryophylli, but the colour of the fungus is different, 
and old patches, up to a foot in length, do not show any 
trace of the hard black margin which characterizes 
resupinate Pomes caryophylli. The specimens without 
setæ in Berkeley and Broome’s Pomes ohliquus from 
Ceylon are apparently this species. 
Primo rufobrunneo, deinde glaucescente ; margine 
leniter incrassato, noduloso, tomentoso ; poris parvis, 
