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sporae ellipsoideae, 10 X 4-5 /x. — Berk. 8f Curt, in Grev. i. p. 179. 



(Type in Herb. Berk. n. 4061.) 



On wood, apparently vine. Carolina. 



" Subiculum extremely thin, rufous sometimes ; hymenium 

 dirty white, pulverulent." {Berkeley.) 



Consisting of very thin scattered patches ; hymenium minutely 



fibrillose or spongy. 



Coeticium lacteum, Fr. Late effusum, submembranaceum 



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lacteum, subtus et ambitu laxe fibrillosum; hymenio ceraceo 

 siccitate rimoso-partito, pallide ochraceo ; sporse subglobosse 

 5-6 /xdiam.— Fr. Sym. Fur. 649; Berk. Outl. 273; Wint. Kr. 

 Fl. 337 ; P. Karst. Myc. Fenn. 312 ; Stevens. Brit. Fung. 

 274 ; Cooke, Handb. p. 321.— Thelephora lactea, Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 i. p. 452. Thelephora cariosa, Pers. Myc. Fur. i. p. 151. 

 Hypochnus, Bon. Handb. f. 259. (Specimen from Fries in 

 Herb. Berk. 3973.)— Fxs. : P. Karst. Fung. JFenn. 623 ; Sacc 

 Myc. Ven. 797, 798; Eoum. Fung. Gall. 2210; Berk. Brit. 

 Fung. 250 ; Thuem. Fung. Aust. 922. 



On wood. Britain ; Europe. 



Broadly effused and usually broken up ; whitish, ochraceous, 

 or buff when dry, thin ; margin indeterminate, fibrillose, often 

 radiating in long thick mycelial strands in a frondose manner for 

 several inches ; hymenium when perfect smooth, cracked, showing 

 the fibrillose substratum. Differs from C. radiatum in the 

 cracked hymenium, and from C. radians in the subglobose 

 spores. Often barren. 



Coeticium levissimum, Massee. Longitudinaliter effusum, 

 tenuissimum, adglutinatum, levissimum, contiguum, aridum, 

 glabrum, subtus obsolete flocculosum, ochraceo-pallescens vel 



alutaceum; sporis ignotis. — Xerocarpus levissimum, ■*• 



Karst. Symb. Myc. xii. p. 111. 



On woody birch. Lapland. 



Superficially resembling Corticiwn calceum. 



Coeticium caloteichum, P. Karst. Effusum, immarginatum 

 adnatum, subtus adpresse fibrillosum ambituque subbyssinum, 

 demum membrauaceum, subsecedens et glabrescens ; mycelio ex 

 hyphis ramosis, articulatis, obtusis, albis, 6-12 mm. crassis con- 

 texto; hymenio tenui, ceraceo, levi, contiguo, rarius siccitate 

 -* albido, mox in flavum vel luteum vergente; cystidus 



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