. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. POLYPORUS. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 513. Dicks. Crypt. Brit. t. 3. / 2. Krombh. t. 74. / 12, 13. Kostk. t. 38. Quel. t. i.— i, 2. /^ A/jv. £&;-. 2. /. 19. GENUS XXIII.—Fistulina (fistula, a pipe. From the pipe-like Fistuiina. character of the tubes). Bull. Champ, p. 314. Hymenium inferior, at the first dotted over with warts, then protruding cylindrical tubes, which are free and distinct from one an- other. Somewhat fleshy fungi) grow- ing on wood, intermediate between Polyporei and Hydnei. Fr. Hym. Eu
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. POLYPORUS. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 513. Dicks. Crypt. Brit. t. 3. / 2. Krombh. t. 74. / 12, 13. Kostk. t. 38. Quel. t. i.— i, 2. /^ A/jv. £&;-. 2. /. 19. GENUS XXIII.—Fistulina (fistula, a pipe. From the pipe-like Fistuiina. character of the tubes). Bull. Champ, p. 314. Hymenium inferior, at the first dotted over with warts, then protruding cylindrical tubes, which are free and distinct from one an- other. Somewhat fleshy fungi) grow- ing on wood, intermediate between Polyporei and Hydnei. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 522. 1. F. hepatica Fr. Juicy-fleshy, not rooting. — Pileus entire, blood- red ; flesh thick, soft, viscid above, traversed with tenacious fibres, hence variegated - red. Tubes at first pallid. Changeable in form, sessile or extended into a lateral stem. On living oak. Common in Eng- land. Pileus roundish, dimidiate or subspathulate. Substance thick and juicy, marbled like beet-root, distilling a red pellucid juice; hymenium convex. Taste rather acid. It attains sometimes an enormous size, even nearly 30 Ib. in weight. Spores salmon-colour, nearly round with an oblique apiculus, 3 mk. Edible and nourishing, but rather coarse, and not of a very pleasant flavour. Known as the beef-steak fungus. Slices exactly like beef-steak. Name—^ran/cos, of the liver; diseased in the liver. From its appearance. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 522. Sv. at I. Sv. t. 25. Berk. Out. p. 257. t. 17. f. i. C. Hbk. n. 841. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 690. -Grev. t. 270. Ventur. t. i, 2. Barla t. 4-7. Hogg &* Johnst. t. 7. Hussey'\. t. 65. Badh. i. /. 12. f. 4; ii. /. 12. f. 2. Price f. 22.—Huds. Schceff. t. 116- 120. Bolt. t. 79. Sow. t. 58. Fl. Dan. t. 1039. Bull. t. 74, 464, LXII. Fistulina hepatica. One- fifth natural size. Section two times natural size. GENUS XXIV.—Polyporus. Fr. Obs. Myc. i. p. 121. Poiyporus. (TTO\VS, many ; irdpos, a pore.) Hymenophore
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