. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. 224 POLYPOREI. Pores rather large, ^ in. broad. B. & Br. Spores oval, white, 14x7 mk. W.G.S. Name—serpens, creeping. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 586. Icon. t. 182. f. 3. Polyporus Stephensii B. <£r° Br. n. 356. Berk. Out. p. 252. C. Hbk. n. 818. Saund. & Sm. t. 45. f. 8-12.. GENUS XXVI.—Dsedalea (Sof5oos, curiously wrought. From the elaborate hymenium). Pers. Syn. p. 449. Pores firm, when fully grown sinuous, labyrinthine ; in all other respects agreeing with Trametes. Growing on wood, becoming hard, the floccose substan

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. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. 224 POLYPOREI. Pores rather large, ^ in. broad. B. & Br. Spores oval, white, 14x7 mk. W.G.S. Name—serpens, creeping. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 586. Icon. t. 182. f. 3. Polyporus Stephensii B. <£r° Br. n. 356. Berk. Out. p. 252. C. Hbk. n. 818. Saund. & Sm. t. 45. f. 8-12.. GENUS XXVI.—Dsedalea (Sof5oos, curiously wrought. From the elaborate hymenium). Pers. Syn. p. 449. Pores firm, when fully grown sinuous, labyrinthine ; in all other respects agreeing with Trametes. Growing on wood, becoming hard, the floccose substance descending un- changed into the trama. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 586. * Corky-woody, dimidiate, sessile. * Coriaceous, dimidiate, sessile. *** Resupinate. * Corky-woody, dimidiate, sessile. 1. D. quercina Pers.—Pale wood- colour. Pileus corky, rugulose, un- even, zoneless, rather smooth, of the same colour internally, at first por- One. ous; the pores then take the form of sinuses which are somewhat contorted or lamellose, becoming at last labyrinthine, edge obtuse. There are many varieties—effuso-reflexed : Schccff. t. 231 ; wholly resupin- ate : Bull. t. 352.7. F. Pers. Klyc. Eur. t. 18.7. i. On dead oak. Frequent. June-Nov. Perennial. Pileus 12.5-15 cent. (5-6 in.) broad. Pores 2 mm. (i lin.) or more broad. Sometimes resupinate or decurrent and the partitions elongated into tooth-like processes. M.J.B. Name—quercus, oak. Pers. Syn. p. 500. Fr. Hym. Eicr. p. 586. Berk. Out. p. 254. /. 19.7 5- C. Hbk. n. 825. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 779. Grev. t. 238. Krombh. t. 5.7 i. 2. Bail. t. 31.— Sow. t. 181. Bolt. t. 73. Bull. t. 352, 442.7 i. Vent. t. 60.7 i, 2 (var.) 2. D. aurea Fr. Golden.—Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, corky- coriaceous, gibbous, velvety, somewhat zoned, unicolorous, in- ternally, as well as the hymenium which is porous then narrowly sinuato-labyrinthine, light yellow. Pileus triangular, margin swollen. On dead oak. Hereford. Imbricated, the veins for the most p