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Appearing under the form of distinct Tubercularia-Mbe pus- 

 tules, which usually become confluent, thick, and again separating 

 more or less when dry, giving the mass a much cracked appear- 

 ance, sometimes continuous, then tuberculose; margin thin, 

 adnate, byssoid; hymenium pruinose, pinkish, lilac, or dirty 

 ochraceous. 



CoETicmM Peteesii, Berk. Sf Curt. Subiculum tenue, tomen- 

 tosum, pallidum hie illic in fibrillas compactum ; hyraenio 

 nmoso, alutaceo hie illic lateritio; sporae oblongo-ellipsoideae, 

 12-14 x 5-6 n.—Berk. Sf Curt, in Orev. i. p. 177. (Type in Herb. 

 Berk. n. 4071.)— Exs : Eav. Fung. Car. 28 ; Rav. Fung. Amer. 

 703 ; Ellis & Everh. N. Amer. Fung. ser. ii. 1716. 



On wood, bark, and on the ground. United States. 



" Subiculum thin, pallid, tomentose ; here and there forming 

 creeping fibres ; hymenium pale, tan-coloured, in parts tinged 

 with brick-red." {Berkeley.) 



Thin, effused, and with a tendency to break away from the 

 substratum. 



Coetictum eoselujm, Speg. Effusum, tenue, cartilagineo- 

 carnosulum, versiforme, sajpius orbiculare, lobato-sinuatum, 

 matrici tenaciter adherens, ambitu perfecte determinatum, sed 

 nunquam liberum ; hymenio glabro, e matrice irregulariter plus 

 minusve scrupuloso, pulchre roseo, margine determinate integro, 

 zona tenui fusco-sericea ornato et minute albo-byssaceo appen- 

 dicular ; sporis non visis — Speg. Fung. Argent. Pug. iii. n. 25, 

 p. 10 



On bark of old orange-trees. Buenos Ayres. 

 Very variable in size, several often confluent; hymenium 

 scarcely cracked when dry. 



Coeticium eubeopallens, Massee. Late effusum, tenue, 

 ambitu albo subradiante; hymenio ochraceo-incarnato, sicco 

 nmo80 pallescente; sporas cylindraceo-ellipsoideae, 8-9x3ji. 



Thelephora rubropallens, Schwein. Syn. N. Amer. Fung. 

 n - 677. (Specimen from Schweinitz in Herb. Berk.) 



On bark. United States. 



Broadly effused, thin ; margin pale, byssoid or radiating, in 

 Parts almost indeterminate ; hymenium, when dry, dirty ochra- 

 ceous with tinge of rose, cracked. 



Coeticium subtebbaneitm, Bab. Habitu Hypheotrichis, longe 



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