European Mycology

...the abundance of the recurring widowed likely a reference to seasonal or regrowing species must be compensated.

LXXVII. Daedalea. Cap leathery (semi-circular or effused). Gills adnate, branched-dichotomous, or reticulately anastomosing (labyrinthine).

• Resupinate lying flat on the substrate.

1. vermicularis, resupinate, flesh-reddish, with short grooves attenuated on both sides, pore-like at the margin.

Boletus resupinatus. Sowerby Engl. Fung. vol. 3. tab. 424.

A singular, but little-doubted species was found in England, in a certain open barn, adhering to the earth by root-like fibers. In size, according to the illustration, it is 4 to 6 inches long and two inches wide. The worm-like, flexuous grooves, or those resembling cracks, offer a particular appearance.

2. lirellosa, resupinate, umber-gray, with a free margin, with very minute linear grooves mixed with pores. Tab. XVII. Fig. 2-3.

Found very rarely on a dried branch of the black poplar (Populus nigra). It is similar to Thelephora due to its uneven surface and sparse, sub-globose tubercles. The grooves themselves, viewed at first glance, feign small cracks, but they are organic, and when observed under a lens, many appear forked, while others are simple and some pore-like.