Polyporus cuticularis. Fr.
Pileus is quite thin, spongy, fleshy, then dry; plane, hairy-tomentose, ferruginous, then blackish-brown; margin fibrous, fimbriate, internally loose and parallel, fibrous.
The pores are long, quite small, pale, then ochraceous; pores longer than the thickness of the flesh. The spores are yellow or ochraceous, very abundant, 7×4–5µ. The hairs on the pileus are three-cleft.
This is very frequent in beech woods about Chillicothe. Found in September and October.
Polyporus circinatus. Fr.
The Round Polyporus. Edible.
Circinatus is from circinus, a pair of compasses, hence means rounded like a circle.
The pileus is three to four inches across, with a double cap, one cap within another, both being compact, thick, round, plane, zoneless, velvety, rusty-yellow to reddish-brown, the flesh being of the same color. The upper cap is pliable, compact, soft, and covered with a soft tomentum, the lower cap, contiguous with the stem, is woody and corky.
The pores are decurrent, extending down the stem, entire, rather small, dusky-gray.
The stem is short and rather thick, often swollen, covered with a reddish-brown tomentum.