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On bark. Britain ; N. Europe. 



Effused, adnate, thin, margin rather vague ; hymenium brick- 

 red, with rosy tinge or brownish red, becoming paler and more 

 ochraceous ; hymenium when perfect waxy, but usually sterile and 

 minutely velvety under a lens, sometimes cracked. 



Corticium: albido-carnettm, Massee. Late effusum, adgluti- 

 natum, tenuissimum, ambitu albo subradiante ; hymenio lilacino, 

 pruina alba consperso, sicco rimoso ; sporae ellipsoideae, 7x4/*- 



Thelephora albo-carnea, Sckwein. Syn. N. Amer. Fung. n. 717. 

 (Specimen from Schweinitz in Herb. Berk.) 



On bark of Vitis. United States. 



Very thin, closely adnate, margin pale, in parts indeterminate ; 

 hymenium dirty lilac or bright grey when dry, much cracked. 

 Eesembles thin forms of C. scutellare, but distinguished by the 

 spores and the pruinose hymenium. 



Corticium effuscatum, Cooke Sf Ellis. Effusum, incrustans, 

 aureo-fulvum, absque pellicula, ambitu concolore ; hymenio 



pulverulento, fragili, fatiscente, fuscescente; spons 



profusis 



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globosis, laevibus, hyalinis, 7-9 /x diam. — Cooke Sf Ellis in Orev. 

 ix- p. 103. (Type in Herb. Kew.)— Exs. : Ellis, N. Amer. 

 Fung. 1208. 



On rotten log. New Jersey, U.S. 



Its only near ally is Corticium pactolinwm, C. & H. These 

 agree in the fragile pulverulent hymenium and profuse globose 

 spores. {Cooke.) 



Thin, effused, often indeterminate, circumference byssoid. 

 Hymenium often pulverulent, but when perfect waxy; dirty 

 pallid ochre when day. Corticium pactolinum has coloured spores, 

 and has been referred to the genus Chromosporium. 



Corticium flammans, Fr. C. mycelio puniceo hymenio 

 glabro, fusco-purpureo. — Fr. Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 334; Ft. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 657. 



Very little is known respecting this species, which has, so ia? 

 as is known, only been seen by Fries in Scandinavia. 



Corticium glabbum, Berk, fy Curt. Late effusum; subiculo 

 radiante byssoideo cito evanido lateritio ; hymenio glabro, rimoso 

 concolore; sporae ellipsoidese, 6-7x3-4 p.— Berk. Sf Curt, in 

 Qrev. i. p. 178. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. a. 4036.)— -#**• : 



Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. n. 716. 

 On bark. Carolina. 







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