SPORES COLORED. SETAE PRESENT. 



describing it, Ellis referred it to his "new genus" Mucronoporus, based 

 on the setae, but the idea does not seem to infect anybody else. 



SPECIMENS. Many from United States. 

 Compare praerimosus. 



FOMES SENEX (Fig. 598). Pileus applanate, sometimes 

 quite large, with brown, rugulose surface without distinct crust. 

 Context medium brown (Sedan brown). Pores very minute (100 

 mic.), indistinctly stratified, the tissue concolorous with the context. 



Pore mouths darker brown, soft, velutinate to the touch. Setae 

 very abundant, rather short and thick, projecting 12-14 mic. Spores 

 scanty (hyaline when young no doubt), globose, 5 mic., deeply colored. 



This species came originally from Chili, but is rare in American tropics, and 

 is not represented in the abundant collections at New York made in the West Indies 

 and other parts of tropical America. It is extremely common in Africa and the 

 East, and particularly in Java. The spores have been described as hyaline or sub- 

 straw color, but I have seen them deeply colored in the type, and others which I 



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