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FETCH : 
Fomes endotheius Berk. 
4087, Peradeniya, August, 1914 (det. Lloyd). 
Fomes caryophylli Rac. 
2794, Peradeniya, February, 1909, on clove ; 3466, 
3467, Hakgala, May, 1912 (det. Lloyd) ; 3966, 3973, 
Hakgala, April, 1914 ; 3580, Kanana, September, 1912 
(det. Lloyd). 
Fomes pectinatus Kl. 
3445, Hakgala, May, 1912 (det. Lloyd). 
A frequent species at Hakgala. 
Fomes Sanfordii Lloyd. 
3446, Hakgala, May, 1912 (det. Lloyd) ; 3963, Hakgala, 
March, 1914 (det. Lloyd) ; 3647, Hakgala, May, 1913. 
Fomes senex Mont. 
2879, Peradeniya, July, 1909 ; 2675, Indurawa, 
October, 1908 ; 3299, Waharaka, December, 1911 (det. 
Lloyd) ; 3322, Pallegodda, January, 1912 ; 3611, 
Gangaruwa, January, 1913 ; 4055, Hakgala, April, 1914 
(det. Lloyd) ; Ritigala, March, 1905. 
Fomes rhinocerotis Cooke. 
2842, Yatipauwa, May, 1909 (det. Lloyd). 
Pileus 7-11 cm. diameter, deeply infundibuliform, 
margin slightly recurved ; at first regular, afterwards 
lobed with new growth from the margin ; strongly 
radiately rugose ; concentrically sulcate. Reddish- 
purple ; new growth reddish-purple to red-brown, 
somewhat zoned ; margin yeUow-brown. The newer 
parts bear narrow tomentose zones, old parts glabrous. 
Flesh white, corky, up to 7 mm. thick. Pore surface 
white ; pores minute, rather distant, brownish in section 
when old ; stratose. Stalk 4-8 cm. high, 7-12 mm. 
thick, somewhat attenuated upwards, with a distinct 
crustaceous outer layer ; internally white, externally 
purphsh-red, pruinose ; springing from a sclerotium 
up to 8 cm. long and 4 cm. diameter, yellowish with 
red patches. A young specimen, pileus undeveloped, 
has a reddish stalk, covered with brown tomentum ; 
apex of stalk obconoid, yellow below, white above. 
