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MB. GEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOREJE. 



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Cobticium intebkuptum, Berk. Tenue, secernibile, ochro- 

 leucum, primitus sericeum, subtus sericeo-tomentosum, album ; 

 hymenio hie illic interrupte ceraceo ; sporae subglobosse, 8 X / /*• 

 — Berk. Fung. Glaziou, n. 752. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. 



n. 4068.) 



On wood. Eio Janeiro. 



Very thin, effused, separable, originating in distinct patches 

 which often become confluent, ochraceous olive when dry. 



Corticium lactescens, Berk. Ceraceo-molle, adglutinatum, 

 undulatum, carneum, lactescens, margine byssoideo, contiguo, 

 brevi, hymenio demum rimoso ; interstitiis pallidis, sericeis ; 

 sporaB globosae, 4 /x diam.— Berk. Outl p. 274 ; Fr. JETym. Eur. 

 650. — Thelephora salicina, Pers. Myc. Eur. i. p. 133. Em.'. 

 Eav. K Amer. Fung. 271. (Type in Herb. Berk. 3982.) 



On oak, willow, &c. Britain ; XI. States. 



Broadly effused, closely adnate, rather thick, generally very 

 much cracked during drying. Hyineniutn smooth, polished, 

 ochraceous, or sometimes passing to a lurid red. Margin rather 

 thin, sterile, not cracked. "When broken exuding a whitish 

 watery milk. 































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Corticium lacunosum, Berk. <$f Broome. Late effusum, 

 molle, mycelio lanosum f uscum, lacunosum ; hymenio ochraceo 

 vel cinnamomeo, ceraceo, contiguo ; sporae ellipsoideae, hyalmae, 

 7 x 4-5 fi. — Berk. Sf Broome, in Ann. <$f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 xi. p. 343 ; Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 661. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. 

 no. 4023.) 



On wood. England ; Scotland. 



Broadly and irregularly effused, generally loosely fibrillo3e 

 and spongy, with various-sized lacunae on the surface ; vaguely 

 spreading on the surface of wood and passing on to surrounding 

 bodies and the ground, sometimes forming a thick felt with scat- 

 tered tufts of sporophores as in the imperfect forms of Corticium 

 arachnoideum ; and in one specimen in Herb. Berk, passing from 

 the condition described above into a compact, continuous waxy 

 hymenium of an ochraceous or pale ciunamon-colour when dry- 

 The hyphsD are thick, 4-5 /i, and furnished with numerous clamp- 

 connections. Related in habit to Corticium porosum, differs in 

 the hymenium not being cracked when dry. 



Cobticium nitidulum, P. Karst . Elongato-effusum, adgluti- 

 natum, ceraceum, glaberrimum, luridum vel argillaceo- lute seen s, 























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