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SPORES HYALINE.
hornbeam around Cincinnati. It is bright, orange yellow color when
in its prime, but pales out when it gets old, and when dried loses all
yellow and becomes dirty, distorted, reddish brown, and a miserable
affair. The pores have some resinous principle apparently, and dry
agglutinate, hard, and darker than the flesh. There is a similarity
between the way these pores dry and those of Polyporus fissilis. In
Europe this species was named by Persoon, and although rare it has
never had any confusion in Europe (excepting misdeterminations at
Berlin). In America, Schweinitz, Berkeley, and Atkinson have each
discovered it to be a "new species." Schweinitz called it Polyporus
Pilotae, and this name has been generally used (Morgan, Long).
Berkeley called it Polyporus hypococcinus, and admitted it was same
as Pilotae. And, finally, Atkinson, in blissful innocence that the
plant had been known to every fungus worker under several names
for eighty odd years, discovered as late as 1902 that it was a "new
species," Polyporus castanophilus. Murrill was the first to suggest
that the American and European plants are the same. We were able
to demonstrate it when we collected plants in both countries.
ILLUSTRATIONS. Although in its prime the most showy Polyporus that grows, no colored
plate has ever been made of it. Sturm, fasc. 27, plate 1, is an evident misdetermination for Polyporus
rutilans; and German mycologists have perpetuated the mistake to this day.
SPECIMENS. A number from Europe and America and exactly the same.
Compare castanophilus, endocrocinus, hypococcineus, Pilotae, Pinicanadensis.
POLYPORUS BENZOINUS. Pileus dimidiate, imbricate, usually
three to four inches in diameter. Surface dark, chocolate brown,
hispid, hairy when young; when old, matted tomentose, marked with
metallic, bluish zones. Flesh pale brown (clay color when dry), drying
firm. Pores small, round, firm, wT ith colored tissue, and, when fresh,
white mouths, bruising brown. Spores 2x5, hyaline, cylindrical,
curved.
This is a frequent species in Swreden on Abies stumps, in America
more rare. In England it has only recently been recorded. Freshly
dried specimens are fragrant, and it has been confused in one of the
latest English books with Trametes odorata, with which it has nothing
in common excepting the "smell." In Europe it is known by
Fries' name, Polyporus benzoinus, by all law-abiding citizens. Quelet
dug up an old name from Scopoli, Polyporus fuliginosus, which he
alleged is the same, and Murrill follows the allegation, applying it,
however, to a different plant. Hennings believed it was Polyporus
cuticularis, and specimens so named are exhibited in the Museum at
Berlin.
ILLUSTRATIONS. Fries, t. 183, good, but rather represents the next; Kalchbrenner, t. 36,
f. 1, good, but misnamed, Kalchbrenner having been a better artist than he was a mycologist. Rea
Trans. Brit. Soc., 1905, t. 12, correctly named, but badly colored, Rea being the contrary.
SPECIMENS. Mostly from Europe. It is rare and hard to distinguish from Polyporus fuscus
in the United States.
Compare morosus, Pinisilvestris, also Fomes fuliginosus, resinosus.
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