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stratoso, pallide cirmamomeo; set-is fasciculatis, brunneis, flexuosis, 



150-200 



Berk. 







in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) x. p. 333.— Veluticeps Berkeleyi, 

 Cooke, Grev. viii. p. 149. (Type in Herb. Berk.) 



On logs in woods, often on the underside. Cuba. 



The fasciculate setae, at first sight, make it look like an Ryd- 

 num allied to R.fiavum (Berk.). 



Himenochjete vibrans, Massee. Centro affixa, orbicularis, 

 conacea, rigida ; pileo ferrugineo, zonato, velutino nee striato ; 

 hymenio velutino ; eetulis e hyphis tenuibus, septatis, compositis ; 

 sporae ellipsoideae, 5-6 X 3 /*.— Stereum vibrans, Berk. $ Curt, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) x. p. 332. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. 

 n. 3709.) 



On dead wood. Cuba. 



Rirneola inhabit and general appear- 



ance, but not gelatinous, and having the hymenium minutely 

 velvety, the pile consisting of hairs composed of a bundle of thin 

 septate hyphae ; 2-3 inches across ; hymenium cinnamon with a 

 silky sheen. Not a typical Rymenochcete. 

















Corticium, Fries (emend.). 



Hymenium amphigenum, laeve vel tuberculosum, ceraceum, 

 glabrum, e mycelio immediate enatum absque strato intermedio ; 

 sporae albae.— Fr. Epicr. p. 556 (in part). ThelepJiora (in part) 

 of most old authors. 



As defined above, the leading features of the genus are :— The 

 hymenium covering the whole free surface of the plant, which is 

 closely adnate by the entire under surface to the substratum ; 

 ln tn e more highly developed species the extreme margin is free, 

 and sometimes more or less upraised. The hymenium is perfectly 

 glabrous and waxy, owing to the entire absence of projecting 

 cystidia, which give to the hymenium a velvety or minutely hispid 

 a Ppearance in the genera Peniophora and Rymenochate. 



The Pfinn. Uypoch 





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abnormal states of species of Corticium, as clearly illustrated by 

 Corticium arachnoideum, which, as described by Berkeley, is a 

 Kypochnus, with a loose, felted subiculum, mostly barren, with 

 tare and there a few scattered basidia, or in some instances with 

 scattered patches of hymenial surface ; but specimens collected 



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