Figure 347.—Fomes rimosus.
Rimosus means cracked. The fine checks in the pileus are clearly seen in the halftone.
The pileus is pulvinate-ungulate, much dilated, deeply sulcate; cinnamon, then brown or blackish; very much cracked or rimose. It is very hard, fibrous, tawny-ferruginous; the margin broad, pruinate-velvety, rather acute.
The pores are minute, indistinctly stratified, tawny-ferruginous, the mouths rhubarb-color. Morgan.
This plant is very common on the locust trees about Chillicothe. I have never found it on other wood.
Fomes pinicola. (Swartz.) Fr.
