European Mycology

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• tricolor. Ag. tricolor, perennial, leathery, halved, sessile attached directly without a stalk, zoned versicolor of various colors and smooth above, tubular-lamellate below: with branched-forked lamellae. Bull. Hist. d. champ. vol. 2. p. 380. t. 541. f. 2.

It inhabits the trunks of the wild cherry tree (Prunus avium); sometimes solitary, sometimes imbricated overlapping like tiles. The upper surface is smooth, as if silky, and brightly painted with whitish bands, others wine-red, and others brick-blackish. The lower surface is at first porous and snowy, then yellowish-reddish and lamellate, and finally reddish-sooty. The flesh is the same color as the lamellae. B.

21. abietina, gregarious, oblong-linear, effused spread out at the base, with a leathery, rather thin pileus, tomentose when young, then smooth, plain, and umber (sometimes reddish), with straight, somewhat distant, glaucous-cinereous bluish-gray lamellae.

Agaricus abietinus. Bull. l. c. p. 379. t. 442. f. 2. and 541. f. 1.

Daedalea abietina. Fries Syst. 2. p. 339.

β. resupinata, larger, with lamellae diverging from the center, often torn.

It grows on fir wood, poles, and beams,