194 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



* Dimidiate. 

 f Flesh brown or ferruginous. 



Trametes pini. Fr. 



More or less semicircular in outline, horizontal, attached 

 by a broad, thick base, pileus rusty-brown, then blackish, con- 

 centrically sulcate, rough, strigose at the margin, flesh tawny 

 ferruginous, hard ; pores irregular, roundish or elongated, 

 deep and indistinctly stratified in old specimens, bright 

 ferruginous, with yellow tinge, becoming dnsky. 



Trametes pini, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 336; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 221. 



On living pine trunks. From 2-4 in. across, flesh thick 

 behind, pores about ^ in. deep first year, but the species is 

 perennial and eventually the annual strata collectively 

 become 1 in. or more thick. Smell slight, pleasant. Pores 

 average f~l mm. in diameter. 



ff Flesh whitish. 



Trametes gibbosa. Fr. (figs. 2, 3, p. 184.) 



Horizontal, sometimes imbricated, semicircular or rather 

 narrowed behind at the point of attachment; pileus con- 

 centrically zoned, minutely velvety, white, greyish with age, 

 margin thick, obtuse, flesh white, corky, thickest behind, 

 pores about ^ in. deep, small, usually elongated radially. 



Trametes gibbosa, Fries, Epicr., p. 492 ; Stev., Fung., p. 222. 



On stumps, trunks, posts, &c. A fine large species often 

 reaching 4-6 in. across, and 3-4 in. from back to front, about 

 -| in. thick at the back, sometimes altogether smaller. Known 

 by the white, velvety concentrically zoned pileus and the 

 narrow pores a little elongated in a radial direction. Some- 

 times the pores are quite irregular in form, average size 

 2 mm. long by ^ mm. wide. 



Sessile, dimidiate, zoned, corky, hard, elastic, zones convex 

 and tuberculated, dirty- white, beautifully velvety, when old 

 cinereous and green from minute algae, the edge obtuse or 

 subacute, often projecting at the base and very gibbous, but 

 not invariably so ; substance white ; pores linear, mostly 

 straight, except at the base, where they are roundish or 

 irregular, very narrow, pale tan. (Berk.) 



