SECTION AMAURODERMUS. 



Fig. 405 



Amaurodermus variabilis. 



Fig. 406 



Amaurodermus Chaperi. 

 Reduced one-half. 



CHAPERI (Fig. 406). Pileus 15 cm. broad, with a smooth, 

 dark crust, but not laccate. Stem hollow, with sterile branches, with 

 smooth, pale grayish surface. Pores minute, short with dark mouths. 

 Spores globose, smooth, or minutely punctate, 8-12. Known from a 

 single and quite old specimen in a cupboard at Paris. It was first 

 referred (through error) to Polypor^us scleropodius of Africa, then 

 described and named as above. 



INTERMEDIUS. Pileus soft, velutinate (now wrinkled) black. 

 Stipe mesopodal with a hard, black, smooth, laccate crust. Spores 

 abundant, globose, smooth, apiculate, 12 mic. Kno\vn from a single 

 specimen kept in a drawer at Berlin, from Africa. It was originally 

 sent in glycerin and is still soft and sticky. 



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