FOMES. 219 



Fomes cytisinus. Berk. 



Dimidiate, imbricated, 8-12 in. long, 4-6 in. broad, pileus 

 coarsely tuberculated, hard, woody, margin slightly incurved, 

 flesh about 1 in. thick behind, becoming thin towards the 

 margin, fibrous but hard and compact, whitish ; tubes 1 in. 

 long behind, shorter in front, pores minute, rounded, 

 whitish ; spores subglobose, 5 /x. diameter. 



Pohjporus cytisinus. Berk., Engl. Flora, vol. v. p. 142 ; 

 Berk., Outl., p. 247 ; Stev., Brit. Fung., p. 207. 



Boletus suberosus. Sow., t. 288. 



On laburnum. 



Imbricated, above a foot across, dimidiate, quite smooth 

 (at least when dry), but coarsely tuberculated. Substance 

 slightly zoned, very thick and close, pale, evidently com- 

 posed of two or three successive layers. This is certainly 

 the same as Boletus suberosus, Sowerby. (Berk.) 



Fomes connatus. Fr. 



Between corky and woody, effuso-reflexed, densely im- 

 bricated, growing into each other, velvety, grepsh-white ; 

 flesh white, zoned; tubes stratose, pores minute, roundish, 

 white. 



Pohjporus connatus. Fries, Epicr., p. 472 ; Cooke, Hdbk., 

 p. 278. 



On old trunks. Often running up the trunk for one or 

 two feet in an imbricated manner, the pilei growing into 

 each other; margin usually obtuse, often only slightly 

 reflexed from a continuous, effused basal portion. From 

 2-4 in. across or more. 



The colour of the jiores varies when viewed in diflferent 

 directions, in some positions glistening with a satiny sheen. 



** Pileus rose-colour. 



Fomes roseus. Fr. 



Somewhat caespitose. Pileus 2-5 in. broad, ?-l in. thick, 

 corky, inclining to woody, hard, triangular, even, somewhat 

 banded, rose-colour, more or less obscured by a greyish-black 

 bloom ; internally floccoso-fibrous, rose-colour ; pores niinnte, 

 round, rose-colour ; spores G [jl. long. 



Polyjxmis roseus, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 372 ; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 206. 



