CONTEXT PINK OR ROSE COLOR. 



pale rosy color (buff pink). Context thin, hard. Pores medium to 

 large, ]4 mm. round, at length long, sinuate, daedaloid, ^2 x 2 mm. 

 rigid, with thin walls. Tissue concolorous. 



A number of specimens are at Kew from Brazil, also a collection 

 from Malay. I know no other from the East. At Paris, Montagne 



Fig. 579. 



Trametes cupreo-rosea. 



got it also from Brazil and referred it to Sagraeana of Cuba, which 

 has much smaller pores. I have never gotten it from Rev. Rick, who 

 finds Trametes Feei abundantly, nor have I ever seen specimens from 

 the West Indies. 



TRAMETES ROSEOLA. Pileus sessile, narrow behind, (8 x 

 lQxlJ/2 cm.), thinner towards the margin, firm. Surface dirty rose 

 color, not zoned, slightly rugulose. Context punky, dry, pale salmon, 

 (light ochraceous salmon). Pores minute, rigid, 1-2 mm. long. 

 Spores globose, hyaline, 4-5 mic. 



This is a fine species, recently named from Africa. It is quite 

 close to Trametes plebeia -as to color, but differs as to context. It 

 proves quite common in Africa, and I have specimens from Ceylon 

 and Japan. How it escaped a name to such a late day I am not able 

 to state. 



TRAMETES PLEBEIA. Pileus applanate, with thin edge, 

 hard, rigid, nearly unicolor. Context, surface, and pores pinkish 

 cinnamon. Surface smooth, dull, minutely velutinate, soft to the 

 touch. Context hard, rigid. Pores minute, round, with thick walls. 



Why Berkeley called this "plebeia" I do not know, for it is neither 

 "common" in appearance nor occurrence. He named it from New 

 Zealand, but recorded it also from India. The New Zealand speci- 

 men is not preserved, but we assume it was the same as the India 

 specimen which is in existence, especially as the "description" covers 

 it. It is not right to charge Berkeley with not knowing his own 

 species when one has no evidence, and can only assume it as a prob- 



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