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CONTEXT AND PORES WHITE OR PALE.
POLYPORUS PELLICULOSUS (Figs. 633 and 634). Pileus
sessile (3-4x>^xl>2 cm.), with a thin, closely adnate, black crust,
beset with scattered, short, erect, black spicules which are of the
nature of clusters of tomentum. Flesh white, 1 cm. thick, soft (now),
but not fragile. Pores (now) darker than the flesh, but probably
white when fresh, small, collapsed in drying, ^ cm. long, separated
from the flesh by a dark line. Spores in great abundance, hyaline,
small, 5x7, many smaller.
Fig. 633.
Polyporus pelliculosus.
Fig. 634.
Known at Kew scantily from Australian collections. The crust,
of course, is quite different, but the flesh and pores, and the way they
dry, their colors, and the abundant spores, all recall Polyporus spumeus.
Polyporus spiculifera (Fig. 634) is a thin form with the tomentum
collected into very distinct nodules.
Compare spiculifera
Fig. 635.
Polyporus flavescens.
POLYPORUS FLAVESCENS (Fig. 635). Pileus ungulate
(4x6x3 cm.), sessile, with a thin, reddish yellow, smooth, papery
crust, resembling to some extent the usual Ganodermus crust as to
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