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MR. GEOKGE MASSKE ON THE THELEPHOREJG. 



slender fibres densely crowded and forming a border, and not 

 margioate only as in Corticium crinitum. 



form 



rugosum 



Corticium triviale, Speg. Crassiuscule membranaceum, 



planum, late effusum, laxe matrici adnatum, leve v. spurie tuber- 

 culato-undulatum, margine non v. vix attenuatum, determinatum 

 sed non reflexum, repandulum, lobatum, subtus intusque album, 

 supra (hymenio) carneum v. aurantium, in juventute subpruinu- 

 losum et mucedineo-ceraceum, siccum tenacellum, rigidulum, non 

 rimosum, vix hincinde v. ambitu contracto-laeerum ac reflexulum. 



Spegazzini, Fung. Fueg. n. 98. 



On rotten decorticated beech. Tierra del Fuego. 



A common species, variable in shape, often resembling a starved 



; sterile, hymenium studded with 

 minute crystals of oxalate of lime, 15-20 /* diameter. 



Corticium versiforme, Fr. Ceraceum, primo molle, dein 

 induratum, e cupulari tuberculiforme, marginatum, insequale, 

 rubrum, leviter albo-pruinosum. — Fr. Epicr. p. 559 ; Hym. Fur. 

 p. 647 ; Wint. Krypt. Fl. p. 338.— Thelephora versiforme, Fr. 

 Flench, p. 184. 



On bark and wood of Acer. N. Europe. 



Commencing as scattered cupulate spots, usually becoming 

 confluent, broadly effused, and immarginate ; when old and dry 

 transversely rimose and pale, and not at all resembling the early 

 stage. 

























B. Immarginata, ambitu subtusgue byssina vel strigosa. 



* Hymenio albo vel ochraceo. 



Corticium seriale, Fr. Elongato- effusum, adglutinatum 

 ceraceo-molle, indeterminatum, ambitu byssino subalbicante ; 

 hymenio inaequaliter papilloso albo-pruinoso, rimoso, siccitate 

 sordide ochraceo ; sporae cylindraeeo-oblongse, utrinque obtusis- 

 simae, 13-14 x 6-7 fx.—Fr. Epicr. 563; Fr. Hym. Eur. 653. 

 Thelephora seriata, Fr. Syst. Myc. p. 445. (Specimen from 

 Pries in Herb. Berk. n. 3992.) 



On pine-wood. Europe. 



Broadly effused, subindeterminate, or entirely so, thin, margin 

 fibrillose, whitish ; hymenium in the dry specimen dirty ochra- 

 ceous. 

















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