Similar punk is sometimes formed in conifers from the mycelium of fomes pinicola.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
They would have the field for themselves, for a season, while Cecil Castlemaine was immured in her manor of Lilliesford; would be free of her beauty to eclipse them at the next birthday, be quit of their most dreaded rival, their most omnipotent leader of fashion; and they rejoiced at the whisper of the cipher letter, the damaging gossipry of the Whig coffee-houses, the bad repute into which my Lord Earl had grown at St. James's, at the misfortune of their friend, in a word, as human nature, masculine or feminine, will ever do-to its shame be it spoken-unless the fomes peccati be more completely wrung out of it than it ever has been since the angel Gabriel performed that work of purification on the infant Mahomet.
"Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories"
Ouida
