There are other similar cases. Thus Fomes Yucatensis is for me 

 Fonies rimosus with setae, but we never find setae on the common 

 Fomes rimosus in the United States. In interpreting the "species" 

 of nature, it does not do to lay down any rigid laws. Nature makes 

 her own laws. It seems that in some species which vary in presence 

 or absence of setae, the setae are absent from specimens of temperate 

 countries, and often present in those of warm countries. 



FOMES OCHROLEUCUS, FROM J. T. PAUL, AUSTRALIA 



(Fig. 1070). We considered this plant in our Apus Polyporus pamph- 

 let as Polyporus, stating 

 that sometimes it takes 

 "Fomes" forms. This speci- 

 men from Mr. Paul is a 

 true Fomes with nine an- 

 nual layers distinctly 

 shown. The plant can 

 never be mistaken from 

 its abundant large, trun- 

 cate, hyaline spores. The 

 older portion of the plant 

 has turned black, which is 

 a feature of the species as 

 we have published. The 

 shape of the specimen is 

 narrow, ungulate, cuneate. 

 We saw at Kew a New 

 Zealand collection with 

 white context and this 

 peculiar shape, and on it 

 we based Fomes cuneatus 

 (Fomes Synopsis, page 

 217). We did not find 



* ., . , spores, which is strange, 



1 it is the same species as this, which it may be. This species must 



not be confused with Fomes ochrolaccatus, another peculiar species 



recently found in Australia. 



fv HEX ^ GONA CRASSIPORA, FROM T. HUNTER, AFRICA 

 fig. 1071) Notwithstanding its very remarkable pore forms, I 

 ook upon this as a variation of Hexagona speciosa. There seems to 



be in Africa a group of species (or forms) with the following essential 

 laracters Surface smooth, faintly zonate. Context color Dresden 



brown to Cinnamon brown. Pores glaucous, without setae or cvstidia. 



1 he original of this group was named from Africa, Hexagona speciosa 



Ur Hexagona pamphlet, page 21). The collections differ, thick 



i/2 cm. to thin 1/2 cm. and in the pore sizes (Cfr. Hexagona Smallii). 



I0 ^T Cr Saw * l I J eM 8 1 S* before with Pores like this specimen (Fig. 



reJt hr 1 m M ?Y Hunter " With their thick walls and 



than H fi ?' Y ^ ne m re f Cavitles in the context rather 

 than definite pores. Since this specimen has been received from Mr. 



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