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MB. GEOEGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOBEJ3. 



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subtus umbrino ; sporae globosae, hyalinae, 5-6 /i diam. — Cooke in 

 Grev. ix. p. 2. (Type in 



On bark. Queensland. 



When dry the hymenium resembles patches of dried blood, 

 which cracks off and exposes the umber substratum. (Cooke.) 



Broadly effused, rigid when dry, hymenium continuous or 

 minutely cracked. Eed colouring-matter is soluble in weak 

 alkaline solution, and stains the spores. 



Corticium cinctulum, Qiielet. Membranaceum, adherens, 

 orbiculare, 2-3 mm. diam., tenue, pruinosum, brunneum ; mar- 

 gme angulato, pubescenti, albo ; sporis ellipsoideo-oblongis, 8 /x 

 long., hyalinis.— Quelet, in Assoc. Fr. 1882, p. 15. 



On bark. France. 



Corticium caulium, Berk. &[ Curt. Effusum, incrustans, 



leve, cinnabarinum, intus luteum ; spora ellipsoideae, 9 x 4-5 /i. 



Berk. $ Curt, in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. vol. ii. 1853, p. 279. 



Thelephora caulina, Schweinitz, MS. (on specimen in Herb. Berk, 

 n. 4084). 



On dead herbaceous stems. Surinam. 



Like red sealing-wax, often entirely surrounding thin stems, 

 firm, shining, bright vermilion or with purple tinge. 



Corticium cabneum, Berk. Sf Cooke. Effusum, membrana- 

 ceum, ochraceo-carneum, ambitu albo-fibrillosum ; hymenio tenui, 

 subcarneo, glabro, lsevi, siccitate rimoso.— Berk. $ Cooke in 



Grev. 



vu. p. 1. 



On Finus contorta. California. 



Corticium Aurora, Berk. Effusum, tenuissimum, adglutina- 

 tum, roseum, expallens, ambitu indeterminato ; sporae ellipsoidea>, 

 ^si apiculataa, 10-11 x 7-8 ^.—BerJc. Outl. p. 276 ; Fr. Hym. 

 '• 657 ; Cooke, Handb. i. 326 ; Stevens. Brit. Fung. p. 281. 



On dead leaves of Carex. Britain. 



"Very thin, effused, pink, becoming whitish. Distinguished 



>m Corticium. T^Ji*. \™ fl>a larwA aiihnvriform or nip-shaped 



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spores. 



Corticium anthochroum, Fr. Late effusum, membranaceum 



lateritio-roseum, expallens, ambitu byssino, pallidiore; spor# 

 ejlipsoidese, 11-13 x 8-9 ft.—Fr. Hym. Fur. 661 ; Stevens. Brit. 

 >ff- 284; Wint. Krypt. Fl. 327.— Thelephora anthochroa, 

 rers. Syn. 576 (specimen from Fries in Herb. Berk. n. 4024). 

 «W. : Fuckel, Fung. Ehen .2612. 



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