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rimoso ex albido pallescente ; sporse globosae, 7-8 n diam. 

 Thelephora pallescens, Sehwein. Syn. N. Amer. Fung. 665. 

 On trunks. United States. (Specimen from Schweinitz in 



Herb. Berk.) 



Broadly effused, indeterminate, thick, much cracked when dry, 

 pallid, with a tinge of pale red here and there. Eesembling 

 thick forms of G. lactescens. Schweinitz says it is commonest on 

 scorched trunks. 



Corticeum lepra, Massee. Candidum, tenue, adnatutn, 

 primum orbieulare, demum confluens ; hy menio ceraceo, rimuloso ; 

 sporse ellipsoide*, 5x3 p.— Stereum Lepra, Berk. Sf Broome m 



Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xiv. p. 67. 



On dead wood. Central Province, Ceylon. (Type in Herb. 



Berk. Kew. n. 3836.) 



Eesembling 8. acerinum, but far thinner and more inclined to 

 separate from the matrix. (Berk, fy Broome.) 



Adnate, thin, extreme margin free; hymenium whitish, waxy, 

 cracked, consisting of small circular patches 2-3 lines across, 

 often becoming confluent and forming irregular patches, 

 barren specimens the surface is often coated with particles o 

 lime, giving it a scurfy appearance. 



Cobticium myxospobtjm, P. Karst. Primitus subrotundum, 

 dein effusum, contextu floccoso, submembranaceum, aridum, adhe- 

 rens, dein facile integrum secedens, ambitu furfuraceo-floccosum, 

 contiguum, hinc inde minute papillosum, lacteum, fere absque 

 hy menio distincto, subtus glabrum; sporis oblongatis^ vulgo 

 curvatis, mucosis, eguttulatis, albis, 8-9 X 3-4 p (muco exeepto). 

 P. Karst. Symb. Myc. Fenn. ix. p. 53. 

 On bark of Pinus sylvestris. Finland- 

 Resembling x Odontia papillosa and O. crustosa. 



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Corticium poltpobidetjm, Berk. <$f Curt. Subiculo tomentoso 

 candido marginem angustum formante; hymenio pulverulento, 

 pallide alutaceo ; sporae subtiliter verruculosae, ellipsoidese, 10 X 

 5-6 p.— Berk. $ Curt, in Grev. i. p. 177. (Type in Herb. Berk, 

 n. 3966.) : 



On wood. Alabama. 



" Effused, irregular ; suhiculum white, well developed, tomen- 

 tose, projecting beyond the pale tan-coloured pulverulent hyme- 

 nium, and forming a narrow border. Allied to O. DregeantW 

 Mont. & Berk." (Berkeley.) 













































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