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CONTEXT AND PORES COLORED.
POLYPORUS CAPUCINUS (Fig. 701). Characters all as Polyporus fruticum
excepting instead of being a globose plant .with thick flesh, and encircling twigs as
Polyporus fruticum usually does, it
differs in being a thin, applanate
plant and dimidiate. The type is so
different from the usual form of
Polyporus fruticum that were the
extreme forms all that were known
they could not possibly be referred
to the same species. We have seen
so many intermediate forms, how-
,
ever, viz., thin plants encircling
twigs (as the type of fruticum) and
thick forms growing dimidiate, that
I should not know how to refer them
if I held them different, the pores, j
spores, context nature, and color
Fig. 701.
being the same. I think there is
no warrant in applying the name
Polyporus capucinus to the thick,
globose form, as has been recently
done. If not called Polyporus fruticum, it should be called conchatus, or Polyporus Weberianus.
Polyporus pseudo-
Compare chrysites, monochrous, also Fomes Bonianus, subpectinatus.
POLYPORUS CLEMENSIAE. Pileus dark brown, sessile, dimidiate, fragile,)
spongy. Pores small, regular, round, 3^-X mm., 5 mm. long. Cystidia none.
Spores 4-5 x 7, deeply colored when ripe, but many hyaline observed.
This appears to be one of the more rare Philippine species, as it has been scantily
distributed. The color and texture of the flesh is similar to that of Polyporus j
Schweinitzii.
FIFTH GENERAL DIVISION.
POLYPORUS-GANODERMUS. CONTEXT BROWN. SPORES|
COLORED, TRUNCATE.
The sections of Ganodermus are based on peculiar spore characters as explained
in our Stipitate Polyporoids, page 99, and Synopsis Fomes, page 262. Gai
dermus are readily subdivided into three sections, as follows:
Stipitate Annuals (see Stipitate Polyporoids, page 102).
Sessile Fomes (see Synopsis Fomes, page 262).
Sessile Annuals, as follows:
There is no section of Ganodermus in the genus Polystictus nor any resupinat*
species (Poria) known.
SECTION 102. CONTEXT SOFT, SPONGY.
POLYPORUS COLOSSUS (Fig. 702). Pileus large, 6-8 inches
2 inches thick, sessile, dimidiate. Surface with a very thin, separable 1
reddish brown, laccate crust. Context soft, spongy, light weight, pal<
buff color. Pores small, y^ mm., 3-10 mm. long, short in proportio
to the thick flesh. Spores large, ovate, 12 x 20 mic., apiculate. di
tinctly rough.
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