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PALLIDUS TRAMETES.
he has since corrected it in a measure, but Murrill has probably
never learned the difference.
Fomes roseus grows on coniferous
specimens are in the museums.
wood. It is rare and few
ILLUSTRATIONS. Fries Icones, t. 186 as rufo-pallidus. Drawn from young specimen.
I am satisfied that Fries Icones t. 184, fig. 1, represents old Fomes roseus. It is labeled Polyporus
roburneus, but has little resemblance to the type at Kew, and it does well represent old Fomes roseus.
Compare Alni, fulvus, rufo-pallidus.
Fig. 577.
Trametes carnea.
TRAMETES, WITH PINK OR ROSE COLOR.
There is a group of plants with flesh or rose colored context that is usually
classed either as Polyporus, Polystictus, or Fomes. I think it is better classed as
Trametes, but will not discuss here the troublesome question as to how Trametes
differs from the other genera. We shall consider here the species of this group only.
TRAMETES CARNEA (Fig. 577). Pileus thin, rarely a half
cm. thick, usually long and narrow, often largely resupinate. Surface
(in the Eastern form) even, slightly rugulose, varying reddish, pale
or dark in same collection. Context fibrillose, corky, salmon rose.
Pores concolorous with concolorous mouths, minute, round, 2-3 mm.
long.
This is a frequent plant in the pine regions of the United States, usually on
coniferous trees. It is unknown from Europe. In all American mycology it has
been called Fomes carneus, "Nees" a tradition handed down from Berkeley, and
the name is so well fixed to the American plant that it is too late, in my opinion, to
correct it, especially as the only way would be to call it a "new species." While
this is not the original of Polyporus carneus evidently, as it does not grow in Java,
no one knows what Polyporus carneus originally was (probably Polyporus rubidus,
but that is a guess), there is no good reason why we should not continue to apply
it in the sense it has acquired by years of use. Bresadola referred it as a synonym
for Fomes roseus, and Murrill copied him, but the only resemblance it has to Fomes
roseus is the context color. They are not only different plants, but had better be
classed in different genera.
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