GANODERMUS. 



other specimens of Fomes applanatus, determined as being Fomes galegensis, but 

 none with the same crust feature of the type at Paris. We hardly think it possible 

 to maintain it even as a form. 



FOMES (?) REXIFORMIS. Same as Fomes applanatus as to crust, con- 

 text color, pores, but differs in being annual and forming new pilei each year. The 

 spores are distinctly rough, in some specimens at least. Morgan observed a plant 

 to be annual that otherwise seemed the same as Fomes applanatus, a perennial 

 plant. It can be generally recognized by bearing the dead pileus of the previous 

 year. Whether it is a distinct species or not is a question, and also it is a question 

 if it should be classed as an annual form of Fomes applanatus. The spores are 

 certainly in some specimens more asperate, but otherwise we doubt if the pileus 

 alone could be told from the first year's growth of Fomes applanatus, the type form 

 of Europe, and we do not know that the spore difference is pronounced enough to 

 distinguish them. It is quite frequent around Cincinnati, usually on rotten stumps 

 near the ground. As it occurs fresh the pore mouths are white, but we have a number 

 of collections (including a "type" from Morgan) with yellowish pore mouths. We 

 think these with yellow mouths are entitled to a name, but we do not propose one. 



SPECIMEN'S. Many, mostly of our own collection. 

 Compare lobatus. 



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