PALLIDUS. CONTEXT PALE. 



Fig. 571. 



Fomes subresinosus 



42, are based on this plant. At any rate, Murrill named it as above, 

 and if he knew anything of its previous European history, he did not 

 mention it. It is badly named, for it is not at all resinous. 



SPECIMENS. Some foreign country, M. Dumee; Tonkin, Mus. Paris; Ceylon, T. Fetch. 



FOMES CONNATUS. Pileus usually imbricate, dimidiate, the 

 surface white (or blackish with age), without a distinct crust. Con- 

 text hard, ligneous, white. Pore layers ^ mm. long, very distinct, 

 with a narrow layer of paler context between each annual layer. 

 (See Fig. 572.) The color of pores is ochraceous, decidedly darker 

 than the context. Pores minute, round. Spores globose, hyaline, 

 smooth, guttulate, 5-6 mic. Hymenium with large capitate, hyaline 

 cystidia. 



Fomes connatus is a common species, both in Europe and America, and no 

 doubt in other temperate countries. There should be no trouble in determining it, 

 as it is the only Fomes with pale context that ever has the pore layers separated so 

 distinctly. It grows on various frondose woods, preferably on maple, and I have 

 usually collected it near the base of maple trees. Often it is covered with moss, as 

 shown in Fries' Icones, and Boudiers' excellent figure. The tendency of recent 

 writers is to call it Fomes populinus, but the name is not only uncertain, but, judg- 

 ing from the picture on which it is based (Fl. Dan. 1791), probably not true. Sub- 

 resupinate forms of Fomes connatus have been misdetermined as being Poria ob- 

 ducens, and Poria obducens has been referred as a synonym on this basis. I think 



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