SECTION PETALOIDES. 



15. POLYPORUS. THIN, RIGID. COLOR PALE ROSE OR 

 REDDISH BROWN. NOT ZONATE OR ONLY 



FAINTLY ZONATE. 



MODESTUS (Fig. 433). Color when fresh pale cinnamon or 

 rose, becoming in old specimens reddish brown. Pores minute. Sur- 

 face dull. Rarely distinctly stiped, but reduced to a short stipe-like 

 base. Appears to be frequent in tropical America and usually named 

 by Berkeley albo-cervinus. 



RUBIDUS. This from the East is close to modcstus, and I 

 know of no marked difference. It is thicker, not so spathulate. and 

 has but a faint indication of a stipe. I am told by Professor Fetch 

 that when old, dark discolored patches usually appear on the top. It 

 is common to Ceylon and I think in other parts of the Kast. 



Fig 433 Fig 434 



Petaloides modestus. Petaloides Didrichensii. 



BRUNNEOLUS. The best specimen is in the British Museum. 

 Those at Kew are poor. It is quite close to rubidus, but the context 

 and general color are more brown. It seems to be common in the 

 Philippines, and in recent determinations under the name atypus is 

 confused with rubidus. 



PETALODES. Surface dark reddish brown with appressed 

 fibrils. Context pale. Pores minute. Stipe lateral, thick. Known 

 from a single specimen at Kew, collected in Brazil by Spruce. 



DIDRICHSENII (Fig. 434). Very similar to modestus, but 

 with distinctly larger pores. Only type known, from Borabora (Society 

 Is.), is at Kew. It seems to be frequent in the East and was n-cri\vd 

 abundantly from Ceylon and called Menziesii by Berkeley. 



BRUNNEO-MACULATUS. Abundant specimens are at Kew. 

 named brunneo-pictus by Cooke from Malay. They are light 

 brown, with medium pores and subzonate. slightly rugulose pilei, 

 marked with darker brown spots. It is the basis of the record of 



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