



128 MB. GEOBGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOBEjE. 



Cobticitjm scutellake, Berk. § Curt. Resupinatum, late 

 effusum, iinmargi natum, ex albido subalutaceum ; hymenio in 

 areolas minutas fisso ; sporae ellipsoideae, 5x3 fx. — Berk, of Curt, 

 in Orev. ii. p. 4. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. n. 4013.)— •##*• : 

 Ellis, Tung. N. Jersey, 3501 & 3500 ; Ellis, Fung. N. Amer. 

 977. — Ellis, N. Jers. Fung. 3399, is a ConiopTiora. 



On wood and herbaceous stems. Britain; "United States; 



Venezuela. 



Widely effused, thin, inseparable, immarginate ; hymeniuin 

 from dirty white to tan-coloured or tawny. Adnate, broadly 

 effused ; hymenium waxy, smooth, very much cracked into minute 

 areolae, pallid or pale ochraceous ; margin almost indeterminate. 



Cobticium subcontinuum, Berk. Sf Curt. Late effusum, 

 membrauaceum, ochraceum, immarginatum, lseve, glabrum, intus 

 brunneum, revivescens ; sporae ellipsoideae, 6x3-4fi. — Berk. Qf 

 Curt, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) x. p. 337. (Type in Herb. 

 Berk. n. 4039.) 



On bark. Cuba. 



Broadly effused, thin, waxy, bright ochre; cracking due to 

 matrix. 



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Cobticium simulans, Berk. Sf Broome. Molle, fulvum, e strato 

 albo floccoso membranaceo oriundum ; hymenio Isevissimo ; sporae 

 oblongo-ellipsoideae, 8x4 /*. — Berk. § Broome in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc (Bot.) xiv. p. 72.— En. : Thuem. Myc. Univ. 512; Rav. Fung. 

 Amer. 10; Rav. Fung. Car. 25. (Type in Herb. Berk. 3969.) 



Ceylon ; United States. 



Running over mosses and twigs ; margin irregular, irregularly 

 radiato-fibrillose ; hymenium waxy, ochraceous or fulvous. A 

 first sight resembling Merulius Oorium." 



Cobticium bude, P. Karat. Subrotundum, confluens, tomen- 

 tosum, molle, adnatum, album, ambitu similari; hymenio ceraceo, 

 tenuissimo, contiguo, sicco vix rimoso, in alutaceum leviter ver- 

 gente, levi, epapilloso ; sporis ellipsoideis, vulgo uniguttulatis, 

 4x2-3 /i. — P. Karst. Symb. Myc. Fenn. ix. p. 53. 



On bark of Abies excelsa* Finland. 



Generally very much wrinkled. Related to Corticium molle. 



Cobticium bobidum, Speg. Late effusum, ceraceo-incrustans, 

 tenue, flavescenti-album vel alutaceum, margine attenuatum, 

 repandum, lobatum, zona fibrillosa ac fimbriatula, latiuscula, 

 pallescente vel alba cinctum ; hymenio in juventute sulphureo- 









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