Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

CONTEXT PINK OR ROSE COLOR.
pale rosy color (buff pink). Context thin, hard. Pores medium to
large, ]4 mm. round, at length long, sinuate, daedaloid, ^2 x 2 mm.
rigid, with thin walls. Tissue concolorous.
A number of specimens are at Kew from Brazil, also a collection
from Malay. I know no other from the East. At Paris, Montagne
Fig. 579.
Trametes cupreo-rosea.
got it also from Brazil and referred it to Sagraeana of Cuba, which
has much smaller pores. I have never gotten it from Rev. Rick, who
finds Trametes Feei abundantly, nor have I ever seen specimens from
the West Indies.
TRAMETES ROSEOLA. Pileus sessile, narrow behind, (8 x
lQxlJ/2 cm.), thinner towards the margin, firm. Surface dirty rose
color, not zoned, slightly rugulose. Context punky, dry, pale salmon,
(light ochraceous salmon). Pores minute, rigid, 1-2 mm. long.
Spores globose, hyaline, 4-5 mic.
This is a fine species, recently named from Africa. It is quite
close to Trametes plebeia -as to color, but differs as to context. It
proves quite common in Africa, and I have specimens from Ceylon
and Japan. How it escaped a name to such a late day I am not able
to state.
TRAMETES PLEBEIA. Pileus applanate, with thin edge,
hard, rigid, nearly unicolor. Context, surface, and pores pinkish
cinnamon. Surface smooth, dull, minutely velutinate, soft to the
touch. Context hard, rigid. Pores minute, round, with thick walls.
Why Berkeley called this "plebeia" I do not know, for it is neither
"common" in appearance nor occurrence. He named it from New
Zealand, but recorded it also from India. The New Zealand specimen
is not preserved, but we assume it was the same as the India
specimen which is in existence, especially as the "description" covers
it. It is not right to charge Berkeley with not knowing his own
species when one has no evidence, and can only assume it as a prob-
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