22. D7EDALEA, P.
Hymenophorum descending into the trama without any
change. Pores, when fully formed, torn, toothed, or laby-
riuthiform.
1. D. quercina. P .; pileus corky, rugged, unequal, nearly
smooth, of the same colour within; hymenium at first porous,
then broken up into waved or gill-like, labyrinthiform
sinuses; edge obtuse. (Plate 19, fig. 5.)
On oak-stumps, rails, etc. Not uncommon. Sometimes
resupinate. Very near some states of Lenzites, but evidently be.
longing to the pore-hearing, rather than the gill-bearing series
2. D. confragosa, P . ; pileus corky, coriaceous, rather con
vex, scabrous, somewhat zoned, self-coloured, brownish-red
subferruginous or wood-coloured within; hymenium porous
then labyrinthiform and torn, at length reddish-brown.—Bolt,
t. 160; Sow. t. 193.
On willows, service, etc. Rare. Bristol, C. E. B. King’s
Cliffe, etc. Sowerby’s plant is the same with Bolton’s.
3. D. unieolor, F r .; pileus coriaceous, corky, villoso-stri-
gose, cinereous, with zones of the same colour; sinuses lahy-
rinthiform, flexuous, intricate, acute, then torn and toothed.—
Sow. t. 325.
On stumps, etc. A^'ery common.
4. D. latissima, F r .; corky, hard, thick, undulated, reddish
hrown or pallid wood-colour; pores thin, distant, very
obtuse, roundish and elongated, flexuous.—Sow. t. 424.
On dead branches, or on the ground. Rare.
23. MEEULITJS, Fr.
Hymenium soft, waxy, forming porous, reticulate, or sinuous,
toothed folds.
1. M. tremellosus, Schrad.; resupinate, then free or reflexed,
of a tremelloid fleshy consistence, white; margin den-
tato-radiate; folds porous, various, pinkish.—Huss. i. t. 10.
Boletus arboreus. Sow. t. 346.
At the base of decayed trees. Rare. Apethorpe, etc.
Sometimes the edge is beautifully tinged with pink, as in
Mrs. Hussey’s plant.
2. M. eorinm, F r .; resupinate, effused, soft, thin, like
paper; circumference at length free and reflexed, white and
villous below ; hymenium reticulato-porous, flesh-coloured or
pallid-tan.—Grev. t. 147.
On dead trunks, etc. Extremely common. Very variable.
3. M. mollnseus, F r .; effused, thin, soft, memhranaceous ;
margin byssoid, w hite; folds flesh-coloured, gyrated, and forming
pores.—Pers. Myc. Eur. t. 14. / . 1, 2.
On dead wood. Rare. Penzance, Mr. Ratfs. Hymenium
dark-brown when old.
4. M. Porinoides, F r .; crustaceous, adnate, th in ; circumference
byssoid, white; folds poriform, distant, dirty-yellow.—
Pers. Myc. Eur. t. 14. / . 7.
On dead wood, chips, etc., or on the ground. Very rare.
Bristol, C. E. B.
5. M. rufus. P .; crustaceo-adnate, smooth, red-hrown;
circumference nearly naked, of the same colour, as also the
uniformly porous hymenium.—Pers. Myc. Eur. t. 16. / . 1, 2.
On fallen oak-boughs. Bristol, C. E. B., etc. This has a
very Polyporoid appearance, and I am not certain that it is
anything more than a state of Dcedalea confragosa, of which,
I believe, Trametes rubescens is a synonym.
6. M. serpens, F r .; crustaceo-adnate, thin, at length
smooth, pallid, then reddish; circumference byssoid, white;
folds at first mere wrinkles, then forming entire angular
pores.
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