32 . THE DECAY OF TIES IN STORAGE 



PLATE VII 



Fig. 1. Trametes sepium fruiting on sapwood at the end 

 of a white oak tie. 



Fig. 2. Pholiota adiposa growing- from the rotten heart- 

 wood through a large crack on the side of a 

 beech tie. This tie was heart-rotted when cut. 



Fig. 3. Hydnum erinaceum fruiting on the heartwood at 

 the end of a beech tie. Tie heart-rotted when 

 cut. 



Fig. 4. Panus stipticus fruiting on the side of a red oak 

 tie and producing a sap-rot. 



Fig. 5. Gloeoporus conchoides fruiting, mainly on the 

 heart of a red oak tie. 



Fig. 6. Cross section of heart rot in beech tie shown in 

 Fig. 2, produced by Pholiota adiposa. 



jg.; 7\ Btaedalea confragosa fruiting on the end of a 

 /**% willow tie. 



Fig. 8. Longitudinal section of blue-stained red gum tie 

 shown in Fig. 10. 



Fig. 9. Longitudinal section of red gum tie shown in 

 Plate III, Fig. 1. Infected at the end with the 

 olive-black mold, Lasiosphaeria pezizula (B. & 

 C.) Sacc. 



Fig. 10. The blue-stain fungus (Ceratostomella sp.) on the 

 end of a red gum tie. The white areas are in 

 part the mycelium of a mold -intermixed with 

 the blue-stain. 



Fig. 11. Cross section of the same tie, about an inch and a 

 half from the end. 



