It is very common, as well as very variable in form and color. It is frequently found on logs and is then densely imbricated. On our hillsides it frequently grows on a small bush as in Figure 343. It is one of the most beautiful plants in the woods.
Polyporus gilvus. Schw.
Gilvus means pale-yellow or deep-reddish flesh-color.
The pileus is corky, woody, hard, effuso-reflexed, imbricate, concrescent, subtomentose, then scabrous, uneven, reddish-yellow, then subferruginous, the margin acute.
The pores are minute, round, entire, brownish-ferruginous. Morgan.
It is very abundant throughout the state, being found on all kinds of logs and stumps.
Polystictus cinnamoneus. Jacq.
Figure 344.—Polystictus cinnamoneus.