CONTEXT PINKISH CINNAMON. 



lated to Trametes plebia. Notwithstanding the pore layers of our 

 specimen, I think the plant is a better Polyporus than Fomes. 



SPECIMENS. Australia, W. W. Froggatt; Samoa, C. G. Lloyd. 



SECTION 62. CONTEXT CINNAMON. 



FOMES FERREUS. Pileus thin, applanate, with smooth brown 

 or finally black crust, margin often paler color. Context cinnamon, 

 somewhat punky. Pores quite minute, the pore mouths pale, bruising 

 darker. 



This species was named from a young species from Ceylon, and 

 seems frequent in Australia and the East. I have collected it in 

 Samoa. The young surface is at first white, becoming black when 

 old, but the usual specimen is generally variegated in color. The 

 context of the type is a shade darker than the fresh material. Fomes 

 ferreus does not occur, I believe, in American tropics. The determi- 

 nation from Cuba should have been referred to Fomes dochmius. 



SPECIMENS. Samoa, C. G. Lloyd. 

 Compare nubilus. 



FOMES FRAXINOPHILUS. Pileus irregular, unguliform, with 

 hard, rough surface. Context cinnamon, hard, woody. Pores pale, 

 small. Spores 6x8 mic., hyaline, smooth. 



This species is only known from America. It is not rare in 

 United States, and is found on two hosts, the ash, and in the West 

 on Shepherdia. The latter has been called Fomes Ellisianus, but ex- 

 cepting as to host is the same as Fomes fraxinophilus. Growing on 

 the small stem of Shepherdia, it often nearly surrounds the stem, and 

 differs usually in form from the same plant as it grows on the large 

 trunks of the ash. The context, pores, spores, and every essential 

 character are the same. 



SPECIMENS. On ash, a number from Dakota in the West to New York in the East. On 

 Shepherdia from Montana, Dakota, and Nevada. We have one collection on oak from Dr. J. F. 

 Brer.ckle, North Dakota. 



Compare circumstans, EHisianus. 



SECTION 63. CONTEXT PINK OR ROSE COLOR. 



FOMES ROSEUS (Fig. 576). Pileus ungulate, at first with a 

 reddish crust, in old specimens black and sulcate. Context Corinthian 

 pink to buff pink, hard. Pores concolorous, minute, in distinct layers. 

 Spores oblong, 4 x 10, hyaline, smooth. 



This is a rare species both in America and Europe, and I have 

 never seen the typical European form from the United States, but 

 connecting forms. It has been confused with Trametes carnea, a 

 very frequent plant in America. Bresadola gave them as synonyms, 

 which was copied by Murrill, hence the account of "Fomes roseus" in 

 X. A. F. does not refer to this plant. I protested to Bresadola, and 



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