596 FOMES 



of conifer trunks, and on felled and worked conifer wood, rarely on 

 frondose trees, and wood. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1981. F. castaneus Fr. Castaneus, chestnut. 

 P. 4-5 cm., chestnut, reniform, or applanate, imbricate, connate at 



the base, 4 mm. thick, smooth, glabrous. Tubes yellowish, short; orifice 

 of pores yellowish, becoming fuscous, minute, round. Flesh white, 

 coriaceous woody. Taste pleasant, bitter. Black poplar. Rare. 



1982. F. carneus Nees. (= Fomes roseus (A. & S.) Fr. sec. Bres.) 



Carneus, flesh colour. 



P. 5-15 cm., flesh colour, effuso-reflexed, or dimidiate, imbricate, 

 rarely solitary, rugose, smooth. Tubes pale flesh colour, short, stratose ; 

 orifice of pores concolorous, minute, round. Flesh concolorous, thin, 

 woody, hard. Trunks, stumps, junipers and Picea. Nov. Rare. 



1983. F. roseus (A. & S.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 186, fig. 1, as Polyporus 

 rufopallidus Trog. Roseus, rose-coloured. 



P. 5-10 cm., rose colour, then reddish and finally blackish brown, 

 hoof-shaped, triangular, sulcately zoned when old, crust thin, pruinose. 

 Tubes rose colour, short, stratose ; orifice of pores concolorous, minute, 

 round. Flesh rose colour, corky -woody, hard. Spores white, " oblong, 

 10 x 4/n" Lloyd. Caespitose. On worked wood. Sept. Rare. 



1984. F. connatus Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 157. Connatus, connate. 

 P. 2-10 cm., white, becoming cinereous or blackish with age, dimidiate, 



densely imbricated, villose. Tubes white, then ochraceous, 1-3 mm. long, 

 stratose; orifice of pores white, glistening, minute, round. Flesh white, 

 becoming ochraceous, hard, woody, sometimes slightly zoned. Spores 

 white, globose, 5-6 /i, with a large central gutta. Cystidia hyaline, 

 capitate, 10/x wide. Poplars, elms, limes, and apple trees. Jan. 

 Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1985. F. populinus Fr. Populus, poplar. 

 P. 1*5-5 cm., white, dimidiate, imbricate, connate at the base, 



villose; margin obtuse. Tubes white, short; orifice of pores white, 

 minute, round. Flesh white, corky-woody, rigid. Spores "globose, 

 hyaline, 3-4/u, diam." Sacc. Black and white poplars and Robinia, 

 July Jan. Rare, (v.v.) 



1986. F. variegatns (Seer.) Fr. (= Ganoderma resinaceum Boud. sec. 

 Lloyd.) Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 368, as Polyporus variegatus. 



Variegatus, variegated. 



P. 7-12 cm., orange, variegated with bay, dimidiate, somewhat flat- 

 tened, imbricate, even, smooth, shining; margin wavy. Tubes yellow- 

 ish, short; orifice of pores yellowish, minute, round, unequal, torn. 

 Flesh pallid, corky-woody. Trunks. Rare. 



