RED HEART The fungus, Fomes pini, is the cause of a heartrot of widespread distribution.
Annosus root and butt rot is caused by the fungus Fomes annosus.
The plants of the genus Trametes allied to Fomes are epiphytal, with the trama the same in substance and color as the hymenophore.
The children often gather the common brackets (Fomes applanatus) and draw pictures on them, using them as toys.
But the fomes implies a blemish, at any rate in the flesh.
After her sanctification thefomes remained in the Blessed Virgin, but fettered; lest she should be surprised by some sudden inordinate act, antecedent to the act of reason.
In order to understand the question at issue, it must be observed that the fomes is nothing but a certain inordinate, but habitual, concupiscence of the sensitive appetite, for actual concupiscence is a sinful motion.
Wherefore to say that the fomes was in the Blessed Virgin without an inclination to evil, is to combine two contradictory statements.
Consequently it is essential to the fomes to incline to evil, or hinder from good.
In like manner it seems to imply a contradiction to say that the fomes remained as to the corruption of nature, but not as to the personal corruption.
It remains, therefore, for us to say, either that the fomes was entirely taken away from her by her first sanctification or that it was fettered.
Whether in virtue of this sanctification the fomes of sin was entirely taken away from her?
Now after baptism man needs to pray continually, in order to enter heaven: for though sins are remitted through baptism, there still remain the fomes of sin assailing us from within, and the world and the devils assailing us from without.
Therefore it was unfitting that the fomes should be entirely taken away from her.
Afterwards, however, at the conception of Christ's flesh, in which for the first time immunity from sin was to be conspicuous, it is to be believed that entire freedom from the fomes redounded from the Child to the Mother.
For some have held that the fomes was entirely taken away in that sanctification whereby the Blessed Virgin was sanctified in the womb.
It is not uncommon to find that some years after the opening of an estate, and after surface timber has been removed, a large number of trees are affected with Fomes lignosus (formerly known as Fomes semitostus).
But if the adversaries will contend that the fomes [or evil inclination] is an adiaphoron, not only many passages of Scripture but simply the entire Church [and all the Fathers] will contradict them.
It is clear that the continuance cf the “fomes peccati” is confused with the continuance of sin and the languor which is frequently due to weakness after the extirpation of sin, with a languor which must necessarily set in.
When he speaks of concupiscence, and of a “fomes peccati” in man, he usually means concupiscence in the wide theological sense, i.
For the same reason I have not taken notice of another species of irrationality, and which seems to answer more exactly to the Arabic notion of the fomes peccati, the black drop of blood at the bottom of the heart.
It is very common in this country but very rare in Europe, while Fomes applanatus, which is common in Europe, is very scarce in the United States.
This has been called by many authors in America Fomes applanatus or Polyporus applanatus.
It resembles Fomes leucophæus but is somewhat stouter and does not have as hard and firm a crust.
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