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CONTEXT PINKISH CINNAMON.
text scanty and pore layers pinkish cinnamon. Pores very minute,
in narrow (1-1^2 mm.) layers.
This is known from the type at Kew, from India. Also a specimen
from Fries (Tahiti) sent Kew and labeled (in error) Fomes
Kamphoveneri.. The illustration, under the name Fomes semitostus,
in Fetch's work is a misdetermination (cfr. Fomes lignosus). Trametes
plebia (which Murrill called Fomes luzonensis) has the same
context and pores, but not the same surface, and for me is a Trametes
with non-stratose pores. It has been referred to Fomes semitostus
as a synonym.
Compare LeRati, tasmanicus, Kamphoveneri.
FOMES XONTOSTUS, with the same context color, pores, and texture.
This has well-developed context and the surface is pale, sulcate. It is perhaps a
form of Fomes semitostus, but the name has no application to it.
SPECIMENS. Henri Perrier de la Bathie, Madagascar.
FOMES SCLEROMYCES. Pileus thin, applanate, with reddish brown
surface, blackish with age. Context pinkish cinnamon. Pores small, round.
Known from type (Cuba) at Kew and very similar to preceding, but with
distinctly larger pores. It is omitted in N. A. F.
FOMES RUBRITINCTUS. Pileus thick, applanate, with
smooth, brown surface, blackening with age. Context when young
pinkish cinnamon; when old, sayal brown. Pores large, round, somewhat
irregular. Pore layers separated by thick layers of context in a
similar manner to that found in Fomes connatus.
This is based on one collection in Ellis' herbarium, made by
Smith in Nicaragua. It was named Fomes laminatus by Ellis and so
distributed, Smith No. 138. Afterwards Murrill renamed it as above.
Compare laminatus.
FOMES DOCHMIUS (Fig. 575). Pileus thin, applanate, with
thin edge. Surface with a black, rimose crust. Context pinkish cinnamon.
Pores very minute, hard, concolorous, with soft, pubescent
mouths.
This seems to be quite a frequent species in the East and West
Indies, but most of the specimens at Kew are from Ceylon. It has
been confused with Fomes ferreus by Berkeley and others. A single
specimen (Wright 248) from Cuba, is at Kew. It was published from
Cuba by Berkeley as Fomes ferreus, and is the same plant that
Murrill calls Fomes subferreus in part. The recent Vienna exsiccatae
1908, under the latter name, is Fomes dochmius.
SPECIMENS. Ceylon, T. Fetch.
Compare subferreus.