This plant, as its specific name indicates, resembles the color of flesh. Reddish, effused, one to three inches long, cartilaginous-gelatinous, membranaceous, adnate. Teeth obtuse and awl-shaped, entire, united at the base. Fries.
Found on the tulip-tree, hickory, and elm. September and October.
Irpex lacteus. Fr.
Growing on wood, membranaceous, clothed with stiff hair, more or less furrowed, milk-white, as its specific name indicates.
The spines are compressed, radiate, margin porus. Found on hickory and beech logs and stumps.
Irpex tulipifera. Schw.
Figure 376.—Irpex tulipifera.
Coriaceous-membranaceous, effused; hymenium inferior, at first toothed, teeth springing from a porus base, somewhat coriaceous, entirely concrete with the pileus, netted and connected at the base, white or whitish, turning yellowish with age.