PALLIDUS TRAMETES. 



he has since corrected it in a measure, but Murrill has probably 

 never learned the difference. 



Fomes roseus grows on coniferous wood. It is rare and few 

 specimens are in the museums. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. Fries Icones, t. 186 as rufo-pallidus. Drawn from young specimen. 

 I am satisfied that Fries Icones t. 184, fig. 1, represents old Fomes roseus. It is labeled Polyporus 

 roburneus, but has little resemblance to the type at Kew, and it does well represent old Fomes roseus. 



Compare Alni, fulvus, rufo-pallidus. 



Fig. 577. 



Trametes carnea. 



TRAMETES, WITH PINK OR ROSE COLOR. 



There is a group of plants with flesh or rose colored context that is usually 

 classed either as Polyporus, Polystictus, or Fomes. I think it is better classed as 

 Trametes, but will not discuss here the troublesome question as to how Trametes 

 differs from the other genera. We shall consider here the species of this group only. 



TRAMETES CARNEA (Fig. 577). Pileus thin, rarely a half 

 cm. thick, usually long and narrow, often largely resupinate. Surface 

 (in the Eastern form) even, slightly rugulose, varying reddish, pale 

 or dark in same collection. Context fibrillose, corky, salmon rose. 

 Pores concolorous with concolorous mouths, minute, round, 2-3 mm. 

 long. 



This is a frequent plant in the pine regions of the United States, usually on 

 coniferous trees. It is unknown from Europe. In all American mycology it has 

 been called Fomes carneus, "Nees" a tradition handed down from Berkeley, and 

 the name is so well fixed to the American plant that it is too late, in my opinion, to 

 correct it, especially as the only way would be to call it a "new species." While 

 this is not the original of Polyporus carneus evidently, as it does not grow in Java, 

 no one knows what Polyporus carneus originally was (probably Polyporus rubidus, 

 but that is a guess), there is no good reason why we should not continue to apply 

 it in the sense it has acquired by years of use. Bresadola referred it as a synonym 

 for Fomes roseus, and Murrill copied him, but the only resemblance it has to Fomes 

 roseus is the context color. They are not only different plants, but had better be 

 classed in different genera. 



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