







120 MB. GEOBGE MASSEE Otf THE THELEPHOBE^J. 



On wood of Vaccinium. United States. 



" Subiculum thin, yellowish green, forming a slight margin 

 hymenium olive-umber, at length cracked." {Berkeley.) 



Berkeley first gave the name of C. simulans to the present 

 plant, without, however, publishing the description, which was 

 afterwards published as C. epichlorum, Berk. & Curt. Tlun, 

 broadly effused, margin sometimes byssoid, yellow or greenish ; 

 hymenium brownish olive or dirty cinnamon, minutely cracked, or 

 sometimes much torn by contraction. 



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Cobticium elocculenttjm, Fr. Ceraceo-molle, primo pezi- 

 zoideum, extus albo-byssinum, dein dilatatuin, effusum, appla n " 

 atum; hymenio marginato, interdum tuberculoso, sanguineo- 

 rufo, sicco rimoso, pruina cervino ; sporse cylindraceo-ellipsoideae, 

 8x4 p.— Fr. Epicr. p. 599 ; Sym. Eur. p. 647 ; Fuckel, Symh. 

 p. 28 ; Wint. Krypt. Fl. n. 3S8.—Exs. : Thuem. Fung. Austr. 

 n. 220 ; Sydow, Myc. March, n. 409 ? 



On poplar bark and wood. N. Europe. 



Appearing as minute cupulate patches, which become expanded 

 and sometimes confluent ; under surface minutely downy ; 

 hymenium deep brownish red, sometimes dirty lilac. 



Closely resembles young form of Stereum purpureum, the only 

 point of difference consisting in the absence of pruina on the 

 hymenium of the latter. 



Cobticium muscigenum, Berk. <$f Broome. Primum tenue 

 margine albo-tomentoso, demum incrassatum margine elevato ; 

 contextu molli, albo ; hymenio obscure ochraceo ; spora> oblongo- 

 ellipsoideae, 7x5 fx. — Berk. $ Broome in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 {Bot.) xiv. p. 71. (Type in Herb. Berk. n. 3963-) 



Uunning over mosses. Habgalla, Ceylon. 



Hymenium ochraceous, polished; substratum thick, fibrillose, 





white. 



" Looks like a mass of plaster which had fallen on the moss. 



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Cobticium Nyss^, Berk. Sf Curt. Adnatum, pileo utrinque 

 reflexo ochroleuco velutino glabrescente ; margine inflexo ; hy- 

 menio laevissimo latiore ; spone ellipsoidese, 7x3 i*. — Berk. 4' 

 Curt, in Grev. i. p. 166. (Type in Herb. Berk. n. 3695.) 



Spreading 



Nyssa. Pennsylvania ; California. 



2 inches across ; pil eUS 











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