SPORES HYALINE. 



Marcucci distributed this (No. 70) years ago as "Polyporus fulvus Scop " it 

 being one of six different plants that have been referred to this name. It came from 

 Southern Italy or one of the Mediterranean islands, and is the only collection known 

 It is close to Polyporus gilvus, has same context color, pores, setae, and spores but 



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Plants of the gilvus alli 



a modification of the Af 



s alliance are strangely rare in Europe, and this is probably 

 rican flora where Polyporus gilvus is common. 



Fig. 684. 



Polyporus licnoides. 



POLYPORUS LICNOIDES (Fig. 684). This is the most pronounced, tropical 

 form. It is thin (type 2 mm.), more flaccid, and tends toward Polystictus. In the 

 most highly specialized "type" form there are smooth, reddish zones on the pileus, 

 but they are present and absent on the same collection. Polyporus licnoides in its 

 "type" forms is more common in tropical America, but specimens so referred are 

 collected in the East. 



SPECIMENS. Brazil, Rev. Rick, Rev. F. Theissen, Gustavo Peckolt; Florida, C. G. Lloyd; 

 Ceylon, T. Fetch; India, G. H. Cave; Madagascar, Henri Perrier de la Bathie; Central America, 

 Chas. L. Smith; Congo Beige, Hyac Vanderyst. 



Compare Balansae, callimorphus, connexus, Ramosii, subtropicalis, also Fomes bambusinus. 



POLYPORUS AURICULIFORMIS. This is a rare form of Polyporus lic- 

 noides, with minutely pubescent or velutinate surface. It was originally from Java, 

 and is compiled in Saccardo as "Poria." The single "type" at Leiden is of doubtful 

 authenticity, but it surely is not "resupinate." We have a specimen from Rev. H. 

 Vanderyst, Congo Beige. 



POLYPORUS GILVOIDES (Fig. 685). Pileus very thin, with flpccose, pu- 

 bescent surface. Substance soft, a Polystictus excepting as to its affinities. Color, 

 context, pores, setae, spores as in Polyporus gilvus. This is a Brazilian form, so named 

 by Hennings, and he gave it a good name, which is the reason we adopt it. Patouillard 

 named the same thing, a year or two earlier, Polyporus pseudoradiatus, from speci- 

 mens that were old. We see no occasion to call it "false radiatus," for it has no re- 

 semblance and precious little analogy to Polyporus radiatus. Recently an "asetulosc 

 form" has been announced from the Philippines. We have our doubts of the occur- 

 rence of "asctulose forms" of any of the Polyporus gilvus group. 



Compare pseudoradiatus. 



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