





136 MB. GEOBGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOBE^l. 



Nat. Hist. xiii. (1844) p. 345 ; Outl. 273 ; Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 649 ; Cooke, Handb. n. 924. (Type in Herb. Berk. 3974.) Exs. : 

 Thuem. Myc. TJniv. 908 ; Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. 411. (Ellis, 

 N. Amer. Fung. 3137 and 3455, called O. aracTinoideum, are 

 hypochnoid forms of some other species than the present.) 



On wood, bark, and running over mosses &c. Britain ; Europe ; 

 Socotra ; United States ; Venezuela ; Victoria, Australia ; Tas- 

 mania ; Bombay. 



Forming delicate effused, arachnoid patches of a snowy white ; 

 threads by no means forming fibres, but spreading like a delicate 

 web and often remaining barren ; but under favourable circum- 

 stances giving rise to a smooth hymenium, consisting of elliptic 

 sporophores arranged in little bunches. Its habit is not unlike 

 that of Thelepliora bombycina. Berk. 



The specimens on which Berkeley founded the species were in 

 the hypochnoid condition, but afterwards numerous well- 

 developed specimens were met with, which are with the type m 

 Herb. Berk. Kew. The hymenium is continuous in many in- 

 stances for several inches, pale ochraceous (when dry) or often 

 with a very pale tinge of glaucous green, slightly cracked; 

 margin shading off into radiating mycelium, cobweb-like or 

 farinose ; frequently when growing in damp, dark places, as the 

 underside of logs, or between the loose bark and the wood, the 

 whole plant remains arachnoid with basidia in scattered tufts, 

 and not forming a continuous hymenium. 



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Coeticium scirpintjm, Wint. Longitudinaliter extensum, 

 membranaceum, tenue, primo plus minus orbiculare, demum 

 irregulare, album, senectute flavidum, vix floccosum, calvum, 

 ambitu subconformi.— Wint. Krypt. Fl. p. 340.— Exs. : Thuem. 

 Myc. Univ. 1505, as AtJielia scirpina. 



On dead leaves of Scirpus silvaticus. Germany. 



Coeticium tessulatum, Cooke. Effusum, membranaceuin, 

 molle, candidum, subtus ambitnque laxe albo-fibrillosum ; hynienio 

 laevi, glabro, pallide ochraceo, siccitate tessellato-partito ; spor# 

 ellipsoideae, G-7 x 3-4* fi.— Cooke in Grev. vi. p. 132. (Type in 

 Herb. Kew.)— Exs. : Eav. Fung. Amer. 127. 



On pine-bark. S. Carolina. 



When the hymenium is fissured, the byssoid snow-white threads 

 of the mycelium may be seen running over the matrix. (Cooke.) 

























































































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