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CONTEXT AND PORES COLORED.<br />

SECTION 92. CONTEXT ORANGE-RED. SOFT, SPONGY.<br />

POLYPORUS ALBO-LUTEUS (Fig. 678). Pileus light weight,<br />

soft, spongy, triquetrous, usually largely resupinate. Surface orange,<br />

dull, no crust. Flesh orange, spongy, light, fragile. Pores very large,<br />

2-4 mm. 2-3 cm. long, with angular, irregular edges, sometimes prolonged<br />

into teeth. Hymenium white (?) at least in dried specimens.<br />

Spores hyaline, 4 x 10, cylindrical, straight.<br />

Fig. 678.<br />

Polyporus alboluteus.<br />

This plant grows on coniferous trunks, and has been abundantly<br />

collected in the Rocky Mountain region. But one collection is known<br />

east of the Mississippi, viz., Peck, in the Adirondack^ (cfr. Myc. Notes,<br />

379). Ellis saw it first and called it Fomes (sic) alboluteus (sic).<br />

?. t is neither a Fomes, white nor yellow. As the name "aurantiacus"<br />

is preoccupied, orange colored plants have serious trouble in getting<br />

appropriate names, and very few of them succeed (cfr. Fomes albomarginatus<br />

(sic), Letter No. 36). As Polyporus "alboluteus" (sic) is<br />

a most remarkable, brilliant plant, it is a pity it was not given a<br />

suitable name.<br />

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