GANODERMUS. 



B. Spores Rough. 



FOMES ANNULARIS (Fig. 604). Pileus narrowly ungulate, 

 pendant, attached by a reduced base. Surface with a hard, brown, 

 smooth, not laccate, crust, with narrow, concentric, raised, annular 

 rings. Context scanty, dark brown (bay brown), the pores reaching 

 the crust. Pores minute, with brown tissue and white mouths. 

 Spores 7 x 12, obovate, truncate, distinctly rough. 



This species rests on one specimen (Fig. 604) from W. T. 

 Saxton, Cape Town, S. Africa. In its pore color, crust, white pore 

 mouths, it is closely related to Fomes leucophaeus, but the shape is 

 unusual in the Ganodermus section of Fomes, and the distinctly 

 rough spores, quite remove it from any form of Fomes applanatus. 

 At Kew we note several specimens in the australis cover that seem 

 to be similar, but we have not examined their spores. 



Fig. 605. 



Fomes Petchii. 



FOMES PETCHII (Fig. 605). Pileus compressed, ungulate, 

 with reduced pore layers each year, 8 cm. in diameter, 5>2 cm. thick, 

 attached horizontally by a reduced base. Surface dark reddish brown, 

 with concentric, raised zones, strongly laccate. Context scanty, 

 pale brown. Pores long (5 cm.), almost reaching the crust, minute, 

 with brown tissue darker than the context. Spores 8 x 12, obovate, 

 truncate, distinctly rough. 



This is based on a single specimen sent from Ceylon by T. Petch 

 as "perennial lucidus." It is a true Fomes, and in our opinion is not 

 a form of Polyporus lucidus. Judging from the annual layer, the 



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