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Cobticium ambiens, Berk. Sf Broome. Late efFusum, contextu 

 niveo ; hymenio candido, glaberriino ; margine tenuissimo, agglu- 

 tinato ; sporae ellipsoideae, 5-6 X 3 p. — Berk. 6f Broome in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xiv. p. 72. (Type in Herb. Berk. n. 3977.) 



On dead branches. Ceylon. 



" Spreading for several inches, extremely smooth, scarcely at 

 all cracked; substance rather rigid, moderately thick, white; 

 margin, when present, consisting of very delicate threads glued 

 to the matrix." (Berk. Sf Broome, I. c.) 



Pure white or with a slight tinge of ochre or pink, rather 

 thick, compact; margin adnate, often indeterminate and pulveru- 

 lent; hymenium very smooth like polished ivory, even, often 

 minutely cracked when dry. 



Cobticium Aubebianum, Mont. Adnatum, primum orbicu- 

 lare, totum floccoso-farinaceum, niveum, tandem tenuissime sub- 

 membranaceum, longitrorsum confluenti-effusum ; ambitu persis- 

 tente floccoso ; hymenio albido, mox in luteum vel griseum 

 vergente ; sporae ellipsoideae, 6x4 p.— Mont. Crypt. Cuba, p. 372. 

 (Specimen from Montagne from Cuba in Herb. Berk. n. 4079.) 



Exs. : Husnot, PI. des Antilles, 602. 



On branches, &c. Cuba; United States; Patagonia; Victoria, 

 Australia; New Zealand. 



Montagne says, '• hymenio pallescente setulis umbrinis pubes- 

 cente ; " but in his own specimen I can detect no trace of set®, 

 and in every other respect it agrees with the description given. 



Thin, broadly effused, margin almost indeterminate, whitish, 

 byssoid or radiato-fibrillose ; from white to pale ochre, some- 

 times with tints of yellow or purplish grey. 



Cobticium Abchebi, Berk. Besupinatum, rufo-pallidum, 

 intus album, crassiusculum, rimosum, immarginatum ; sporae 

 cylindraceo-ellipsoidea?, 7-8 x 3 /u.— Berk, in Rook. f. Flora 

 Tam. ii. p . 2G0. (Type in Herb. Berk. n. 4051.) 



On charred wood. Tasmania. 



Effused, rather thick, immarginate; hymenium cracked into 

 squares, substance white, very compact, not fibrillose. 



Cobticium abachnoideum, Berk. Tenue, effusum, pallidum, 

 immarginatum, subtus fibrillosum vel subfloccosum, ambitu 

 fibrillis albis fimbriatum ; hymenio ceraceo, contiguo, sicco hinc 

 imie rimoso ; 8 porae globosae, 6-7 n diameter- Berk, in Ann. 













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