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Very broadly effused, thick, rigid when dry ; hymenium coarsely 



tuberculose, cracked, brownish cinnamon with sometimes a tinge 

 of purple. 



Hxmenochjste RHABARBARiNA, Massee. Effusa, arete adnata ; 



hymenio velutino, rhabarbarino, margine angusto pallido evanido ; 



setulis acuminatis, 30-40 X 7-9 p ; sporae dilute olivaceaB, oblongo- 



ellipsoidese, 8x4 /*. — Corticium rhabarbariuum, Berk, fy Broome 



in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot), xiv. p. 69. (Type in Herb. Berk. 

 n.3987.) 



On dead wood. Ceylon ; New Zealand. 



Closely adnate, broadly effused, springing from radiating fibres, 

 new pilei springing from the first formed hymenium. When old 

 the hymenium is often glabrous and cracked. 



ttt Seta subclavata, interdum asperula. 



Htmenoch^te scabriseta, Cooke. (PI. V. f . 7.) Eesupinata, 

 purpureo-fusca, mollis, subspongiosa, margine pallidiore, tenuiore, 

 demum leviter libero; hymenio velutino, levi; setis clavatis, sup- 

 erne asperatis, pallide brunneis, 70-90 X 8-11 /x ; sporae ellipsoidese, 

 7x4 p.— Cooke, in Rav. Fung. Amer. n. 717. (Type in Herb. 



Kew.)— Em. : Gay. Fung. Amer. 717 ; Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. 

 1108. 



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On bark of Myrica. Darien, Georgia, U.S. 

 Closely allied to H. umbrina, but distinguished by the rough 

 clavate setae. 



Htmenoch^te umbeina, Massee. Subimbricata, supra brevi- 

 ty reflexa, margine subiculoque luteis spongioso-tomentosis ; 

 hymenio umbrino, velutino ; setulis elongatis, obtusis, verruculosis, 

 brunneis, 30-40x7-8/*; sporse subglobosae, 5 X 4 p.— Stereum 



Berk, n. 3857.) 



4r Cooke in Grev. I p. 164. (Typ 





Imbricated, free portion narrow ; hymenium minutely velvety ; 

 the whole plant soft and spongy. 



Himenocilete FIMBRIA.TA, Ellis SfEverh. (PL V.f. 8.) Eesup- 

 inata, suborbicularis, margine umbrino-brunneo stngoso-fimbriato ; 

 hymenio griseo, velutino ; setulis cvlindraceis vel subclavatis, pal- 





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Uhs 6f Everh. Journ. Myc. i. p. 149. (Authentic specimen 



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