SPORES COLORED. SETAE NONE. 



Fig. 597. 



Fomes dependens. 



pores when fresh are deep (Argus) brown, but they soon seem to fill 

 with hyaline hyphae and become much paler, and this seems to be a 

 constant character. In Java all collections I have seen are mostly 

 small, an inch or two thick, but I have it from Mauritius three or 

 four inches thick. 



SPECIMENS. Ceylon, T. Fetch (three collections); Java, sent by Bresadola; Mauritius, 

 P. Koenig; Japan, A. Yasuda. 



The Mauritius specimen, 4 inches thick, is much larger than those from Ceylon or Java. The 

 Japanese specimen is to me somewhat doubtful. It is thinner, and the pores show no evidence of chang- 

 ing color with age, as they do in all my other collections. 



FOMES PSEUDOSENEX. Pileus applanate (2-3 cm. thick), 

 w T ith a hard, rough, irregular, sulcate, black surface. Context reddish 

 brown (Argus brown), hard, rigid. Pores minute, hard, concolorous, 

 in many distinct, narrow layers, with narrow layers of context often 

 interposed. Setae, none. Spores globose, deeply colored, 4 mic. 



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