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Surface with appressed fibrils, faintly zonate with raised zones. Context
white. Pores large, rigid, lacerate, irregular. Hymenium with
numerous hyaline, projecting, smooth, thin-walled hyphae.
This, originally from Java, is not rare in the East. The largepored,
rigid hymenium reminds one of that Polystictus fimbriatus of
American tropics, but the latter plant is merismatoid, entirely different
in method of growth. Polystictus Blumei would never be
recognized from the published description, but I am satisfied from
my notes and photographs of type at Leiden it is the same as this.
POLYPORUS MESOTALPAE (Fig. 771), FROM PROFESSOR
T. PETCH, CEYLON. Pileus a foot or more in diameter, with a
thick, mesopodial stem. Surface dull, cinereous brown, minutely
velutinate, soft to the touch. Context pale cinereous, soft, spongy.
Pores minute, round, cinereous, darker than the flesh. Cystidia
none. Spores globose, hyaline, opaque, smooth, 5-8 mic.
Professor Petch finds this several times in Ceylon, and gives an
interesting account of it. It was never collected by Thwaites. "It is
Fig. 771.
Polyporus mesotalpae. (Photograph much reduced in size.)
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