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toothed, at length torn as in Irpex, white, yellow, then greenish.
Flesh white, clouded pale sulphur.
Woods, mixed, under Pinus sylvestris. Sept. 3i X 2| X ® in.
1518. P. leueomelas Fr. (from the colours ; Gr. leukos, white, melas.
black) a.
P. expanded, thick, subfragile, slightly silky-squamulose, dark
olive-umber or blackish fuliginous. St. equal to unequal, subtomentose,
yellow-umber or as P. T. decurrent. Po. large,
short, unequal, white to cinereous, black when dry. Flesh
white, changing to faintest rufous-purplish or black.
Woods, fir. Sept. 5J X ® X ® in.
b. Lcntce.
1519. P. lentus Berk, (from the tough-pliant substance; lentus, tough)
abc.
P. umbilicate, thin, minutely scaly, buff-white, shaded buff,
ochreous or reddish-brown. & equal, hispid or furfuraceous,
colour as P., shaded sienna-buff. T. decurrent, long, large,
unequal, yellowish-white. Po. toothed.
Dead roots and branches, furze, hawthorn; frequent. April-Sept.
2 X I X J in.
1520. p. brumalis Fr. (from the time of growth ; hruma, winter) abc.
P. convexo-expanded, very thin, villous to squamulose and
smooth, rich dnnamon to umber or slate-umber; marg. paler.
St. equal, minutely dark-umber-floccose on a pale brown
ground, when young brown-ochre above, ochre below. T.
decurrent, very shallow, white, becoming yellow. Po. toothed.
Fksh white.
Woods, on dead branches, sticks, hazel, birch, beech, sometimes on the
ground ; frequent. 2 x 2® x A in.
1520a. P. areularius Fr. {arctdarius, a casket-maker; in reference to
the fulvous pores, covered by the pileus—as if in a casket) a.
P. pliant, then coriaceous, somewhat umbilicate, zoneless, orange-
brown, in the first year covered with fuscous sq., in the second
glabrous with a yellow strigose margin. St. somewhat squamulose.
greyish-fuscous or sooty-brown. T. oblong. Po. rhom-
boidal, thin, rather large, entire, whitish then fulvous. Flesh
white.
Dead twigs. Sept. Varying from | X ® X Jg in. to 2® x I® X J in. Distinguished
from 1520 by the shape of the pores, the strigose margin and
fuscous squamules of the pileus.
1521. P. fuseidulus Fr. (from the somewhat fuscous pileus) a.
P. convexo-plane, very thin, leathery, pale yellowish-brown or
pale olive-brown. St. equal, smooth, pale yellowish-olive. T.
adnato-decurrent, somewhat long, warm yellowish-white.
Woods, chips ; rare. 2j x i f X J in.
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1522. P. leptoeephalus Fr. (from the thin pileus; Gr. leptos, thin.
kephale, the head) abc .
P. convexo-plane, slightly depressed or subumbilicate, thin,
leathery, pale yellowish-buff or shining yellowish. St. smooth,
colour as P., sometimes black at base. T. adnate. Po.
minute, colour as P. or whitish. Fksh white.
Woods, on trunks, dead birch; rare. Oct.-Mar. 2® X i f X in.
c. Spongiosa.
1523. P. Sehweinitzii Fr, (after Ludwig David von Schweinitz) abc.
P. expanded, rugged-uneven, strigoso-tomentose, thick, deep
orange-sienna to sienna-umber, irregularly zoned brown ; mid.
almost black. St. rugged-uneven or obsolete, sulphur, umber-
clouded below, dark umber at base. T. decurrent, large,
sulphur to grqen-brownish-sulphur. Po. torn. Fksh deep
sienna.
Woods, about roots, fir, pine, larch. July-Oct. 6J X i f X i | in. Hartig
states that this fungus has an effect on living wood similar to that of the
“ Dry-Rot ” 1680.
1524. P. rufescens Fr. (from the rufescent colour) abc .
P. depressed to infundibuliform, somewhat thin, strigose, pale
vinous-umber; mid. darker; marg. irregular. St. equal,
uneven, sometimes lateral or absent, colour as P., darker and
clouded below. T. decurrent, pale yellowish-vinous-umber.
Po. torn. Fksh colour as P.
On and aliout stumps, ash, elm.
Sept.-Jan. 5 x x i in. Sometimes
wholly biscuit-buff.
d. Subcoriaceoe,
1524a. P. tomentosus Fr. (from the minutely velvety pileus ; tomentum,
wool) a c.
P. plane, corky, becoming hard, often lobed and irregular,
tawny; marg. thin, straight, sometimes yellowish. St. solid,
attenuate upwards, sometimes a mere base or central point,
sometimes rooting, steel-grey. T. subdecurrent, short. Po.
very minute, entire, pale- or greyish-yellow, at first delicately
whitish-pruinose. Flesh pale tawny.
Ontheground. 2 x ® X J in. This with 1524b, 1525 and 1526 have been
placed by Cooke, Saccardo and Massee in Polystictus.
1524b. P. Montagne! Fr. (after J. F. C. Montagne) a.
P. cyathiform, irregular, zoneless, uneven, ferruginous, becoming
smooth ; marg. thin. St. unequal, pubescent, colour as P.
T. short. Po. large, round, edge entire, yellowish-white, then
ferruginous. Flesh tawny-cinnamon.
Distinguished from 1525 by the zoneless pileus and large entire pores.
Autumn. I® X i j X jb in.
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