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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Pomes rimosus. Berkeley. 

 Cracked Fomes. 



Rimosus means cracked. The fine checks in the pileus are clearly seen in 

 the halftone. 



The pileus is pulvinate-ungulate, much dilated, deeply sulcate ; cinnamon, 

 then brown or blackish ; very much cracked or rimose. It is very hard, fibrous, 

 tawny-ferruginous ; the margin broad, pruinate-velvety, rather acute. 



Figure 347. Fomes rimosus 



The pores are minute, indistinctly stratified, tawny-ferruginous, the mouths 

 rhubarb-color. Morgan. 



This plant is very common on the locust trees about Chillicothe. I have 

 never found it on other wood. 



