614 TRAMETES 



distinct layer, regular, round, or oblong. Flesh white, or coloured. 

 Spores white, rarely yellowish, elliptical, ovoid, globose, subglobose, 

 cylindrical, or oblong, smooth. Cystidia present, or absent, hyaline, 

 or coloured. Annual, or perennial. Growing on wood, very rarely on 

 the ground; sometimes imbricate. 



I. Dimidiate, sessile. 

 *Flesh whitish. 



2064. T. Trogii Berk. (= Trametes hispida (Bagl.) Quel.) 



J. G. Trog, the Swiss mycologist. 



P. 510 cm., fuscous, somewhat olivaceous, dimidiate, convex, soli- 

 tary, or imbricate, somewhat zoned, zones at first very indistinct, then 

 becoming evident, concolorous, clothed with rigid, fasciculate, 6 mm. long, 

 hairs; margin acute. Pores cream colour, then coffee and milk colour, 

 unequal, subangular, toothed. Flesh pale tan or wood colour. Spores 

 "white, elliptic-cylindric, 12-13 p, guttulate" Quel. Dead poplar 

 trunks. Oct. Rare. 



2065. T. gibbosa (Pers.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 162. Gibbosa, humped. 

 P. 10-20 cm., whitish, becoming greyish, dimidiate, flattened, ex- 

 tended behind, gibbose, villose, obsoletely zoned ; margin often brown- 

 ish, obtuse. Pores whitish, 2-8 mm. long, linear, straight, equal. 

 Flesh whitish, corky, compact, thick, very firm. Spores white, oblong, 

 sometimes curved, 5-7 x 2-5-3^. On stumps, and posts of beech, 

 and poplar, more rarely on oak, and willow. Aug. March. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



2066. T. rubescens (A. & S.) Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 16. 



Rubescens, turning red. 



P. 5-12 cm., whitish, becoming red, dimidiate, flattened, at first 

 white pruinose, at length zoned; margin thin. Pores white, becoming 

 crimson lake, or blood red when touched, pruinose, 1-3 mm. long, round- 

 ish, then elongate and daedaliform, narrow, obtuse. Flesh white, be- 

 coming crimson lake, or blood red when broken, corky, soft, zoned. 

 Spores white, oblong, curved, 10 x 2/Lt, 3-guttulate. On willow, and 

 alder trunks. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2067. T. Bulliardii Fr. (= Trametes rubescens (A. & S.) Fr. sec. Quel.) 

 Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 310, as Boletus suaveolens. 



Pierre Bulliard, the eminent French mycologist. 

 P. 5-14 cm., whitish, becoming fuscous, dimidiate, flattened, often 

 gibbose at the base, at length zoned, even, smooth; margin thin, sub- 

 acute. Pores pallid, then rufescent, 3-10 mm. long, somewhat round, 

 or linear, unequal. Flesh yellowish, at length becoming fuscous, corky, 

 thick Spores white, elliptical, 4-5 x 3/z, 1-guttulate. Smell pleasant. 

 On willow, and alder trunks. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



