CONTEXT AND PORES COLORED. 



POLYPORUS CAPUCINUS (Fig. 701). Characters all as Polyporus fruticum 

 excepting instead of being a globose plant .with thick flesh, and encircling twigs as 



Polyporus fruticum usually does, it 

 differs in being a thin, applanate 

 plant and dimidiate. The type is so 

 different from the usual form of 

 Polyporus fruticum that were the 

 extreme forms all that were known 

 they could not possibly be referred 

 to the same species. We have seen 

 so many intermediate forms, how- 

 ever, viz., thin plants encircling , 

 twigs (as the type of fruticum) and 

 thick forms growing dimidiate, that 

 I should not know how to refer them 

 if I held them different, the pores, j 

 spores, context nature, and color 

 being the same. I think there is 

 no warrant in applying the name 

 Polyporus capucinus to the thick, 

 globose form, as has been recently 



Fig. 701. 



done. If not called Polyporus fruticum, it should be called Polyporus pseudo- 

 conchatus, or Polyporus Weberianus. 



Compare chrysites, monochrous, also Fomes Bonianus, subpectinatus. 



POLYPORUS CLEMENSIAE. Pileus dark brown, sessile, dimidiate, fragile,) 

 spongy. Pores small, regular, round, 3^-X mm., 5 mm. long. Cystidia none. 

 Spores 4-5 x 7, deeply colored when ripe, but many hyaline observed. 



This appears to be one of the more rare Philippine species, as it has been scantily 

 distributed. The color and texture of the flesh is similar to that of Polyporus j 

 Schweinitzii. 



FIFTH GENERAL DIVISION. 



POLYPORUS-GANODERMUS. CONTEXT BROWN. SPORES| 

 COLORED, TRUNCATE. 



The sections of Ganodermus are based on peculiar spore characters as ex- 

 plained in our Stipitate Polyporoids, page 99, and Synopsis Fomes, page 262. Gai 

 dermus are readily subdivided into three sections, as follows: 



Stipitate Annuals (see Stipitate Polyporoids, page 102). 



Sessile Fomes (see Synopsis Fomes, page 262). 



Sessile Annuals, as follows: 



There is no section of Ganodermus in the genus Polystictus nor any resupinat* 

 species (Poria) known. 



SECTION 102. CONTEXT SOFT, SPONGY. 



POLYPORUS COLOSSUS (Fig. 702). Pileus large, 6-8 inches 

 2 inches thick, sessile, dimidiate. Surface with a very thin, separable 1 

 reddish brown, laccate crust. Context soft, spongy, light weight, pal< 

 buff color. Pores small, y^ mm., 3-10 mm. long, short in proportio 

 to the thick flesh. Spores large, ovate, 12 x 20 mic., apiculate. di 

 tinctly rough. 



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