PALLIDUS TRAMETES. 



TRAMETES FEEI (Fig. 578). Pileus thin, pink color, appla- 

 nate (10 x 14 x ^ cm.). Surface appressed, fibrillose with a zonate 

 effect, glaucescent. Context thin, punky. Pores minute, round. 



This is a tropical, American plant, very similar to Trametes 

 carnea as to size, shape, and color, and I am not sure it is a different 

 species. It was named by Fries from Brazil, but no specimen is in 

 his herbarium. There is at Paris, however, an evident cotype from 

 the herbarium of Desmazieres "recu par Mr. Fee, Brazil, 1826." 

 The fibrillose surface, which is the only distinction between this 

 plant and Trametes carnea, is not always in evidence, and I think 

 the two plants merge into each other. Trametes Sagraeana, named 

 by Montagne from Cuba, is very similar, though most of Montagne's 

 species under this name, from Brazil, are Trametes cupreorosea. At 

 New York are many collections from West Indies, referred to Tra- 

 metes Sagraeana. 



TRAMETES SAGRAEANA. Pileus thin, rigid, attached by a 

 reduced base. Surface smooth, even, dull, soft to the touch. Context 

 thin, punky. Pores minute, round, firm. 



The type form, as illustrated by Montagne from Cuba, has very 

 minute pores, and differs from Trametes Feei in more punky context, 

 and surface soft to the touch, not hard and fibrillose. The type is 

 marked by Montagne "Cuba." In the same cover, however, is another 

 specimen marked "865" (from Leprieur), with large, sinuate pores, 

 which Montagne also refers to Trametes Sagraeana. For me, it is 

 Trametes cupreo-rosea. Trametes Sagraeana seems to be rare in the 

 West Indies, and I have noted only the type. The abundant speci- 

 mens so referred by Murrill from Cuba are Trametes Feei. 



TRAMETES LILACINO-GILVA. Pileus applanate, usually 

 thin, rose or pink color, with surface strongly rugose, fibrillose. Con- 

 text concolorous, punky. Pores medium round, concolorous. Spores 

 oblong, hyaline, smooth, 4x8 mic. 



The Australian analogue of Trametes Feei of .American tropics, 

 and of about the same color and surface. It differs in having notably 

 larger pores and more strongly fibrillose surface. It seems to be 

 frequent in Australasia, but is not known to me elsewhere. The next 

 species with even surface has same color and pores, and is a form 

 probably. The Australian forms all have larger pores than the 

 analogues in the American flora. 



TRAMETES EUCALYPTI. This is an Australian form, agreeing with 

 Trametes lilacino-gilva as to color and pores, but having even pileus, corresponding 

 to surface of Trametes carnea. It is not as frequent in Australia as lilacino-gilva, 

 and but one collection is at Kew. There is no type but a figure by the author at 

 Kew. 



TRAMETES CUPREO-ROSEA (Fig. 579). Pileus thin, rigid, 

 attached by reduced base, (6 x 9 x ^ cm.). Surface striate fibrillose, 



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