SECTION GANODERMUS. 



quite different. The many specimens so named in the museums often 

 have little resemblance to each other, or to the original picture. 



COCH LEAR. Plant with a black, laccate crust. Stipe thick 

 (about an inch) 6-10 inches long, dorsally attached. Context cin- 

 namon. Pores minute with white mouths. Spores 8x 14, smooth or 

 slightly rough. This is a common species in Java and the East Indies, 

 but we have seen no specimen from any other section. There are a 

 number of collections at Leiden, and it was sent to us abundantly by 

 Dr. Konigsberger from Java. We take it in the sense of Bresadola's 

 determination at Leiden, though we doubt if it is the same as Nees 

 illustrated, especially as to the stipe. The plant has the same (dorsal) 

 stem insertion as fornicatus and amboinensis, but much more obese 

 stem. 



AFRICANUS. Pileus thick, obese, with a mesopodal, obese stem. 

 Context dark, umber. Surface dull, resinous. Spores 7 x 10, minutely 

 rough. In its relationship, color of context, and spores this plant is 

 close to the sessile species such as applanatus and widely departs from 

 all others in this stipitate section. The type came from South Africa 

 and was misnamed Polyporus Umbraculum by Kalchbrenner and frag- 

 ments were so distributed (de Thumen, 708). It seems to have the 

 same color characters as fulvellus, which is a sessile species, and the 

 exsiccatae number was cited under that species. 



Fig. 398 

 Ganodermus fornicatus. 



Fig. 399. 

 Ganodermus Lingua. 



