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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



The tubes are short, pores minute, rusty-red but covered from the first with a 

 white pubescence and continuous with the margin ; the spores nearly 

 round, 6-y/x. 



The specimens in Fgure 350 were found in Haynes' Hollow on a living ash, 

 growing at intervals of five or six feet, one above another, to a height of thirty feet. 



Tratnetes. Fr 



In case of the genus Trametes the hymenophorum descends into the trama 

 of the pores without any change, and is permanently concrete with the pileus. 

 The pores are entire. There are, however, a few of the Polypori which are quite 

 thin that have the trama of the same structure with the hymenophorum. These 

 have been separated by Fries and have been called Polystictus. They are dis- 

 tinguished by the fact that the pores develop from the center out and are perpen- 

 dicular to the fibrillose stratum above the hymenophorum while in the genus 

 Trametes the hymenophorum is not distant from the rest of the pileus. 



Trametes rubescens. Fr. 



Figure 351. Trametes rubescens. 



This is one of the neatest 

 plants of this structure in our 

 woods. It grows on the small 

 branches and many times covers 

 them quite well. It is resup- 

 inate, the cap being beautifully 

 zoned as you see in Figure 

 351. Frequently they grow from 

 the side of a small tree that 

 has fallen to the ground and 

 in this case they are shelv- 

 ing. 



The pore surface is usually 

 reddish or flesh-color, the pores 

 being long and irregular and 

 inclined to be labyrinthiform 

 in older specimens as will be 

 seen in Figure 352. 



The whole plant is reddish or 



