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29. B. felleus, Bull. ; pileus soft, pulvinate, smooth, even,
brown, inclining to reddish-grey ; stem solid ahove, attenuated,
reticulated; tubes adnate, convex, elongated, angular, flesh-
coloured, as well as the substance of the pileus when broken.
—Bull. t. 379.
In woods. Rare. King’s Cliffe. Taste hitter.
4. Spores white.
30. B. eyanesoens. Bull. ; pileus convexo-expanded, closely
tomentose or floccoso-squamose, opaque, tan, becoming brownish
; flesh compact, white, dark blue when broken; stem
stuffed, then hollow, ventricose, villoso-pruinose, of the same
colour, constricted ahove, even, white; tubes free, minute,
round, white, then yellow.—Bull. t. 369.
In woods. Not found since the time of Sibthorpe.
31. B. eastaneus, Bull. ; pileus convex, expanded or depressed,
opaque, velvety, cinnamon as well as the stem, which
is stuffed, then hollow, attenuated from the somewhat bulbous
base; flesh white, unchangeable; tubes free, short, round,
white, then dull-yellow.—Bull. t. 328 ; Huss. ii. t. 17.
In woods. Rare. A small species.
19. STEOBILOMYCES, B.
Hymenophorum quite distinct from the hymenium. Pileus
fleshy, at length tough. Spores globose or broadly elliptic,
minutely rough.
1. Strobilomyces strobüaoeus, B. ; blackish-umber; pileus
pulvinate, rough with thick floccose scales ; stem equal, veiled,
sulcate ahove ; tubes adnate, white, angular, whitish-hrown.—
Dicks. Cr. i. t. 3. / . 2.
In fir-woods. Very rare. Bullstrode, Lightfoot. Spores
very dark.
20. POLYPORUS, Fr.
Hymenophorum descending into the trama of the pores,
which are not easily, if at all, separable, and changed with
them into a distinct substance.
1. Stem central; pileus entire.
1. P. brnmalis, F r . ; pileus fleshy, then coriaceous, somewhat
umbilicate, zoneless, in the first season dingy-villous, iu
the second squamulose, becoming smooth, pallid; stem slender,
hirsuto-squamulose, pallid; pores oblong and angular, slender,
acute, denticulate, white.—Rost. t. 8.
On dead trunks and branches. Rare. Scotland. Portbury,
near Bristol, C. E. B.
2. P. fuscidulus, F r . ; pileus fleshy, then tough, subcori-
aoeous, convexo-plane, zoneless, even, brown, tinged with yellow;
stem rather slender, equal, smooth, attenuated, pallid;
pores adnate, angular, somewhat rounded, obtuse, quite entire,
yellowish.—Bolt. t. 170.
Amongst chips, etc. Extremely rare. Darlington, Mr.
Robson. Pileus about 2 inches across.
3. P. leptoeephalus, F r . ; pileus tough, coriaceous, convexo-
plane, thin, smooth, zoneles.s, even, pallid, then fawn-coloured;
stem short, smooth, pallid; pores minute, rounded, obtuse,
adnate, whitish.—Jacq. Misc. i. t. 12.
On trunks of trees. Rare. Scotland, Klotzsch. Also
found by Mr. Dickson.
4. P. lentus, B . ; pileus fleshy, but tough, umbilicate, minutely
seal}', especially at first; stem hispid, furfuraceous,
rather slender, incurved, central or excentric; pores irregular,
decnrrent, white. (Plate 16, fig. 1.)
On old stems of Ulex. Northamptonshire aud Nottinghamshire.
Not uncommon. Allied to P. squamosus.
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