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AURANTIACUS. CONTEXT LATERICEOUS.
SECTION 66. CONTEXT ORANGE RUFOUS. SPORES COLORED.
FOMES JUNIPERINUS. Pileus ungulate, or narrowly ungulate,
with a black, rimose, rough surface. Context hard, woody,
orange rufous. Pores medium 2-3 to mm., at first round, at length
often elongated by tearing of the walls, at first ochraceous, the tissue
of the old layers gradually assume the red color of the context. Setae,
none. Spores abundant, globose, 4-5 mic., pale colored.
This is a rare plant, growing, as far as known, only on species of
Juniperinus, hence well named. In the United States it has been
collected scantily in Kentucky and Tennessee (cfr. Myc. Notes, p.
522), but in recent years more abundantly in the Southwest (Texas,
New Mexico, and Arizona), and always on juniper. In Europe it is
known from a single specimen collected in Russia on juniper seventy
years ago, and preserved at Paris. I am told it has also been collected
in Africa, and a recent specimen sent to Kew.
SPECIMENS. I have a fine specimen from Arizona. W. H. Long.
Compare Demidoffi, Earlei.
FOMES TRICOLOR. Pileus large, applanate, with black,
rimose crust. Context latericeous red, hard, woody. Pores minute,
concolorous, paler when young, hard, woody. Pore mouths brownish.
Setae, none. Spores colored, 5-5^x6-6^2, smooth, abundant.
This species is known from a few collections in Philippines.
There is a cotype at Kew. It seems to be badly named. The spores
were described as "hyaline with brown walls" (sic.)
FOMES LATERITI US .Pileus thick, ungulate, seemingly with
a thick, brown crust. Context hard, woody, latericeous red. Pores
minute, concolorous, hard. Pores small, concolorous. Spores globose,
5-6 mic., colored, smooth.
While the "description" reads much like the preceding, they are
quite different plants. Fomes lateritius is known from two specimens
at Kew, one from Brazil, the other from Demarara.
4TH GENERAL DIVISION, BICOLORIS.
SECTION 67.
This section with bicolored tissue, the pores a dark brown, the flesh a light
buff, is a unique section, embracing but two known species, which are perhaps the
same. The spores of one are large, globose, brown. The section is related to the
section Amaurodermus in the stipitate series.
FOMES M I RABILIS. Pileus applanate (10 x 18 x 3 cm.) with
a hard, regular, brown crust. Context 1-1> cm. thick, pale buff
when dry, more yellow when moist, hard, ligneous. Pores Verona
brown, contrasting with the pale context, iy to 2 cm. long, minute,
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