



144 MR. GEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOREJG 





Norm 



p. 6. 







On bramble-twigs. Prance. 



A conidia-bearing state is described, presenting the general 

 features of the basidia-bearing plants. The conidia are borne 

 singly on large cells of variable form, sometimes clavate with the 

 apex blunt and rounded, in others attenuated into a long pedicel- 

 like prolongation supporting the conidium. Basidia, which are 

 furnished with four long arcuate sterigmata, are very rare on tbe 

 conidia-bearing plants. 



Corticium martiantjm, Berk. Sf Curt. Subiculum tenuis- 

 simum, fulvum ; hymenio, croceo ; sporse ellipsoidese, basi apicu- 

 late, 3x2 M .— Berk. Sf Curt, in Grev. i. p. 179. (Type in 

 Herb. Berk. Kew. n. 4040.)— Exs. : Bav. Eung. Car. 30. 



On rough wood. Boston, U.S. 



" Forming little detached patches, very irregular inform ; subi- 

 culum very thin, tawny, covered here and there with the saffron- 

 yellow hymenium. Allied to C. peroxydatum, Berk. & Broome, 

 a Ceylon species." (Berkeley.) 



Corticitjm ochthodes, Berk. Sf Curt. Effusum, resupma- 

 tum, umbrino-fulvum, margine arcuato subtomentoso ; hymenio 

 colliculoso — Berk. Sf Curt, in Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) x. p. 336. 



On dead wood. Cuba. 



" This is anomalous. Young specimens have the hymenium 

 nearly even ; in age it becomes rough, and sometimes thepapiU® 

 are elongated. Thelephora puteana, however, shows us how a 

 species with a normally even hymenium may become covered with 

 cribriform processes." 



Coeticium POLYGONitJM, Fr. Adnatum, limitatum, vnox u*- 

 duratum, subgrumosum, incarnatum, ambitu similari ; hymenio 

 sub pruina densa rubro ; sporae cylindraceo-ellipsoideae, 14-10 

 X 5-7 fx.—Fr. Ilym. Eur. p. 655 ; Berk. Outl. p. 276 ; Cooke, 

 Handb. p. 941 ; Stevens. Brit. Fung. p. 280 ; Wint. Krypt. &• 

 p. 332 ; P. Karst. Myc. Fenn. p. 316. (Specimen from Fries in 

 Herb. Berk. Kew. n. 4203.)— Exs. : Cooke, Fung. Brit. 412, 

 ed. 2, 6; Koum. Fung. Gall. 2010 ; Sacc. Myc. Ven. 1111 &407 ; 

 Fuckel, Fung. Ehen. 1312 ; Thuem. Fung. Austr. 822 ; Desm- 

 Cr. Fr. ser. i. 878. 



On bark, more especially poplar; also on wood, Britain; 

 Europe ; TJ. States ; New Zealand. 































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