The cap is 1 1/2 to 2 inches broad, and the stem 1 inch long.
+POLYPORUS PICIPES = pitch and foot.+
+The Black-stemmed Polyporus.+
+Cap+ pallid color, then turning chestnut, often a pale yellowish livid
color, with the disc chestnut, fleshy, leathery, rigid, tough, even,
smooth, depressed at disc or behind. Flesh white. +Stem+ eccentric and
lateral, equal, firm, at first velvety, then naked, and dotted black up
to the pores. +Pores+ decurrent, round, very small, rather slender,
white, then slightly pale and yellowish. This fungus grows on the trunks
of trees, and is found as late as the middle of winter.
+POLYPORUS SULPHUREUS = brimstone.+
+The Sulphury Polyporus.+
This mushroom gains its name from the color of its pores, which are of a
bright sulphur color. It grows in tufted layers (caespitose), sometimes 1
to 2 feet long, and it cannot be mistaken. +Cap+ may measure 8 inches in
breadth, and is of a reddish-yellow color, overlapping like the shingles
of a roof (imbricated).
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