194 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



* Dimidiate. 

 ■f Flesh hroicn or ferruginous. 



Trametes pini. Fr. 



More or less bcinicirculav in outline, horizontal, attaclied 

 by a Lroad, thick base, pileus rusty-brown, then blackish, con- 

 centrically silicate, rough, strigose at tlie margin, flesh tawny 

 ferruginous, hard ; pores irregular, roundish or elongated, 

 deep and indistinctly stratified in old specimens, bright 

 ferruginous, with yellow tinge, becoming dusky. 



Trametes pini, riles, Syst. Myc. i. p. 336 ; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 221. 



On living pine ti'unks. From 2-4 in. across, flesh thick 

 liehind, pores about \ in. deep first year, but the species is 

 perennial and eventually the annual strata collectively 

 become 1 in. or more thick. Smell slight, pleasant. Pores 

 average J— 1 uim. in diameter. 



fl Flesh ivhitish. 



Trametes gibbosa. Fr. (figs. 2, 3, p. 184.) 



Horizontal, sometimes imbricated, semicircular or rather 

 narrowed behind at the point of attachment ; pileus con- 

 centrically zoned, minutely velvety, white, greyish with age, 

 margin thick, obtuse, flesh white, corky, thickest behind, 

 pores about ^ in. deep, small, usually elongated radially. 



Trametes r/ibhosn, Fries, Epicr., p. 492 ; Stev., Fung., p. 222. 



On 6tum])s, trunks, posts, ikc. A fine large species often 

 reaching 4- G in. across, and 3-4 in. from back to front, about 

 rj in. thick at the back, sometimes altogether smaller. Known 

 by the white, velvety concentrically zoned pileus and the 

 narrow pores a little elongated in a radial direction. Some- 

 times the pores are quite irregular in form, average size 

 2 mm. long by \ mm. wide. 



Sessile, dimidiate, zoned, corky, hard, idastic, zones convex 

 and t.uberculated, dirty-white, beaulilully velvety, when old 

 cinereous and green from miinite algai', the edge obtuse or 

 sul)acute, often projecting at the base and very gibbous, but 

 not invariably so ; sulistance white ; pores linear, mostly 

 straight, except at the base, where they are roundish or 

 irregular, very narrow, pale tan. (Berk.) 



