Rather common about Chillicothe on the ground about old stumps.
Polyporus arcularius. Batsch.
Figure 336.—Polyporus arcularius. Two-thirds natural size, showing dark brown and depressed center; also dark brown stems.
The pileus is dark-brown, minutely scaly, depressed in the center, margin covered with stiff hairs.
The tube surface is of a dingy cream color, openings oblong, almost diamond-shaped, resembling the meshes of a net, the meshes being smaller on the margin, shallow, simply marked out at the top of the stem.
The stem is dark-brown, minutely scaly, mottled, with a ground work of cream-color; hollow. Common in the spring of the year on sticks and decayed wood in fields or in old clearings. It is quite generally distributed. Edible but tough.
Polyporus elegans. Fr.
The pileus is fleshy, soon becoming woody; expanded, even, smooth, pallid.