VIII. FUNGI. 
606 
\_Panus. 
determinate, thin, crowded, connected by veins ; cinnamon-coloured. — Berk. 
Outlines, 217. 
Northern Island: common on dead wood, Colenso. (Europe, etc.) 
2. P. maculatus. Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 176. Closely imbricate. 
Stems connate, scarcely visible. Pileus broad, reniform, convex, fleshy, at 
first tomentose, then breaking up into reflexed scales, at length smooth ; 
margin slightly involute. Grills rather distant, broad, decurrent, crisped when 
dry ; margin entire ; spores white, oblong, j-qVo' l° n g. 
Northern Island: on dead trunks, Colenso. 
8. SCHIZOPHYLLUM, Pries. 
Pileus hard, drv. Gills coriaceous, branched in a flabellate manner, lon- 
gitudinally splitting along the trama, the divisions becoming revolute. 
Chiefly a tropical genus, abounding on dead trunks. 
1. S. commune. Fries ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 177. Pileus adnate 
behind, simple and lobed. Gills grey, then brownish-purple, the divided 
surface villous. — Berk. Outlines, 228. 
Abundant on dead wood. (Ubiquitous.) 
9. LENZITES, Pries. 
Pileus corky or coriaceous. Gills firm, often anastomosing, and forming 
spurious pores ; edge entire. 
A common tropical and temperate genus. 
1. Ii. repanda. Fries. Pileus plane, corky, very broad, zoned, smooth, 
pallid, whitish ; margin curved. Gills anastomosing, crowded, somewhat 
toothed. 
Northern Island: on dead wood, J. B. H. 
10. POLYPORUS, Pries. 
Fleshy, coriaceous, or woody Pungi, often projecting horizontally from the 
trunks of decaying trees, consisting of a stalked or sessile pileus, which is 
usually marked with concentric rings on the upper surface and studded with 
pores on the lower, sometimes the pileus is adnate to the wood by one surface. 
Hymenium concrete with the substance of the pileus, consisting of subrotund 
pores with thin simple dissepiments. Hymenophorum descending into the 
trama of the pores, which are not easily if at all separable, and changed with 
them into a distinct substance. 
A very large genus found in all parts of the world. The species are extremely variable 
in form and size, and are difficult of definition. 
KEY TO THE SECTIONS. 
A. Favolus. Pores large, 4-6-angled, like honeycomb. 
B. Microporus. Pores minute, rounded. 
