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CONTEXT AND PORES COLORED.
POLYPORUS ADUNCUS. Pileus dimidiate, 1 cm. thick,
unicolorous brown. Surface with coarse, brown, hispid hairs. Context
brown. Pores small, round, brown. Setae few, large, 8-10 x
60-75 mic., deeply colored, with peculiar, hooked points. Spores
hyaline, smooth, 4 x 5-6 mic., not guttulate. Spores are a little
larger than Polyporus leporinus, but otherwise it is exactly the same,
excepting the surface, which is quite different. It is very rare, only
known from one specimen from E. K. Abbott, Monterey, Cal., and
grew on the roots of a pine tree. To the eye it resembles Polyporus
cuticularis, but has no relation to it otherwise.
FOURTH GENERAL DIVISION.
SPORES AND CONTEXT COLORED. SPORES NOT
TRUNCATE.
All previous sections have hyaline spores.
SECTION 97. CONTEXT PALE (WHITE?) OR ISABELLIXE. SETAE NONE.
POLYPORUS BERNIERL Pileus sessile, dimidiate, large,
10-50 cm. Surface brown, strigose, hispid, at length black. Context
yellowish, isabelline, very light weight, spongy. Pores large, 1-2 mm.,
angular, with uneven, angular mouths. Pore tissue concolorous.
Setae, none. Spores pale colored, 6-7 x 8-10, abundant, smooth.
The type is at Paris. It came from New Caledonia. It is noteworthy
for its light weight and color.
SPECIMEN'. Cotype, Museum Paris.
POLYPORUS DIELSIL This is a very large species, said to be "40 x 40 cm."
It is only known from a piece at Berlin, and came from Australia. The spores, in
abundance, are large, 7 x 10, pale colored, smooth. The pores are brown, but the
flesh is much paler and may have been white when fresh. The hyphae of the pore
tissue is pale, the hymenial elements dark. This is a reversal of what is usually
found in the polypores. The plant has a distinct brown cuticle. It is a very curious
species and imperfectly known.
SECTION 98. CONTEXT YELLOW. SETAE NONE.
Both species known in this section are thin plants.
POLYPORUS RHEICOLOR. Pileus imbricate, thin (2-3 mm.).
Surface even, minutely tomentose, dark brown. Context scanty, thin
(1-5 mm.), bright yellow. Tubes minute, 1-2 mm. long, brown,
darker color than the context. Spores subglobose, 4x4-5, deeply
colored, smooth.
This is a species of the American tropics only, as far as known.
It is represented in the museums from Cuba, Brazil, Central America,
etc., mostly by single pileoli, but we judge it grows densely imbricate
as distributed by Rick. A specimen we have proceeds from a common
base, but we think it is unusual. The context is usually thin (1 mm.),
but we have a specimen from Rev. Torrend that has flesh 5 mm. thick,
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