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CONTEXT PINKISH CINNAMON.
lated to Trametes plebia. Notwithstanding the pore layers of our
specimen, I think the plant is a better Polyporus than Fomes.
SPECIMENS. Australia, W. W. Froggatt; Samoa, C. G. Lloyd.
SECTION 62. CONTEXT CINNAMON.
FOMES FERREUS. Pileus thin, applanate, with smooth brown
or finally black crust, margin often paler color. Context cinnamon,
somewhat punky. Pores quite minute, the pore mouths pale, bruising
darker.
This species was named from a young species from Ceylon, and
seems frequent in Australia and the East. I have collected it in
Samoa. The young surface is at first white, becoming black when
old, but the usual specimen is generally variegated in color. The
context of the type is a shade darker than the fresh material. Fomes
ferreus does not occur, I believe, in American tropics. The determination
from Cuba should have been referred to Fomes dochmius.
SPECIMENS. Samoa, C. G. Lloyd.
Compare nubilus.
FOMES FRAXINOPHILUS. Pileus irregular, unguliform, with
hard, rough surface. Context cinnamon, hard, woody. Pores pale,
small. Spores 6x8 mic., hyaline, smooth.
This species is only known from America. It is not rare in
United States, and is found on two hosts, the ash, and in the West
on Shepherdia. The latter has been called Fomes Ellisianus, but excepting
as to host is the same as Fomes fraxinophilus. Growing on
the small stem of Shepherdia, it often nearly surrounds the stem, and
differs usually in form from the same plant as it grows on the large
trunks of the ash. The context, pores, spores, and every essential
character are the same.
SPECIMENS. On ash, a number from Dakota in the West to New York in the East. On
Shepherdia from Montana, Dakota, and Nevada. We have one collection on oak from Dr. J. F.
Brer.ckle, North Dakota.
Compare circumstans, EHisianus.
SECTION 63. CONTEXT PINK OR ROSE COLOR.
FOMES ROSEUS (Fig. 576). Pileus ungulate, at first with a
reddish crust, in old specimens black and sulcate. Context Corinthian
pink to buff pink, hard. Pores concolorous, minute, in distinct layers.
Spores oblong, 4 x 10, hyaline, smooth.
This is a rare species both in America and Europe, and I have
never seen the typical European form from the United States, but
connecting forms. It has been confused with Trametes carnea, a
very frequent plant in America. Bresadola gave them as synonyms,
which was copied by Murrill, hence the account of "Fomes roseus" in
X. A. F. does not refer to this plant. I protested to Bresadola, and
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