Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

on polypores, I do not know what it is unless it is Leveille's or Kalchbrenner's. And
Cooke is the author of the only text-book published on Australian fungi, a book that has
about as much truth in it as is in Gulliver's Travels.
Mr. Cheel sends some interesting notes on the fresh specimens. "Pores orange red
when fresh. Surface of pileus rich cream color tinged with ochre and orange red."
This specimen is ungulate, 8 x 12 cm. and 9 cm. thick. All of those at Kew are
applanate, not over 2-3 cm. thick. The pores are not "concolorous" but much darker in
dried specimens than the surface. Spores (not recorded by Miss Wakefield) are abundant
in this specimen, globose, (or appearing in certain views as though collapsed) 3 mic.
hyaline, smooth.
The flesh is pale yellow, soft and punky, and the plant is evidently closely related to
Polyporus sulphureus. As it is always sessile though, I would place it in a different section,
No. 89 of the Polyporus Synopsis. It approaches Polyporus amarus of California in
several features.
NOTE 271. Pomes badius, from D. Griffiths, Texas. The occurrence of this species
in the United States has not heretofore been recorded. It is frequent in the tropics.
Mr. Griffiths finds it on Acacia Greggii at Walde, Texas, and sends beautiful specimens.
It is close, too close, to the common Femes rimosus on locust, and the only point of
difference is the larger pores, about 80 mic. in Fomes rimosus and nearly double in
Fomes badius. Both plants are confined as far as known to leguminose trees and the
pore difference alone hardly makes them different "species."
NOTE 272.
Bptrytis