

110 MB. GKORGE MASSEE ON TUK THELEPHOKE.E. 



Hymenoch-ETE stelligera, Speg. Effusa, late incrustans 





contigu 



,-yel 

 rufes- 



cens vel ferruginea dense minutissimeque setulosa ; setuhs fuli- 

 gineis, rigidulis, continuis, apice plus minusve radiato-ramulosis, 

 ramis 20-30X3, apice acutiusculis. — Speg. Fung. Fueg. p- 42, 



n. 103. 



On decorticated beech. Staten Island, Tierra del Fuego. 



Bemarkable for the more or less stellate apices of the setae, in 

 this character resembling the species of Stellatostroma, but in the 

 latter genus the stellate hyphse are immersed in the substance or 



the stroma. 



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Hymenooajete corrugata, Lev. Subeffusa, arete adnata, 

 mox grumosa, pallide cinnamomea; hymenio setis ferrugineis 

 obsito, Bicco rimosissimo ; setis conico-acuminatis, 70-120 /* ; 

 sporse ellipsoideae, olivaceae, 7-8x4-5 p. — Lev. in Ann. Set. Nat. 

 ser. 3, v. p. 152. — Corticium corrugatuin, Fr. Epicr. 565 ; 

 Rym. Europ. 656. Thelephora corrugata, Fr. Obs. i. 154 ; Fr. 

 Elench. 224. Thelephora Padi, Pers. Myc. Eur. i. p. 134 ; Or**- 



(Specimen 



Exs 



Thum. My 



26 ; Bav. Fung. Amer. 124 ; Ellis, N. Am. Fung. 14 ? 



Britain; Europe; N.America. 



Broadly effused, closely adnate, so that the irregularities of the 

 matrix are followed by the hymenium, which varies from dark 

 brown, through ferruginous, to dirty grey when dry. There is 

 no shade of purple in the hymenium, which is very much cracked 

 into polygonal areas when dry. 



HymenochjvTe croceo-ferrtjginea, Massee, n. sp. (Pl« V* 

 f. 9.) Effusa, late incrustans, tenuissima, e croceo-ferrugi& ea 

 fuscescens ; hymenio minutissime setuloso, rimoso ; setulis cylm* 

 draceis, basi inflatis, 70-100X30-35^; sporse subglobos®, 

 olivacese, 7X6 ft. 



On dead stem of Rn&a caninn. 



) 



Britain (Appin, Norths.). 



Broadly effused, very thin, adglutinated, margin sometimes 

 byssoid, at others indeterminate. Resembling H. corrugate but 

 differing in the very much swollen bases of the setae and the sub- 

 globose spores. 



































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