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Funy. 691. (Specimen from Schweinitz in Herb. Berk.) — Exs. : 

 Bar. Fung. Car. 34. 



On vine. United States. 



Thin, effused; hymeniuui bright orange, sometimes red; 

 margin byssoid or fibrous, sometimes brighter than the hyme- 

 mum, sometimes paler, often vague. 





Corticium venosum, Berk. Sf Bav. Late effusum ; subiculo 

 tornentoso ; hymenio livido-pallido, e fibrillis subiculi parce et 

 late reticulato.— Berk. Sf Bav. in Grev. i. p. 177; Bav. no. 1321 



Spreading widely; subiculum thin, tomentose, consisting of 

 interwoven threads ; hymenium livid but pale, marked here and 

 there with wide reticulations, which appear to arise from the 

 subiculum. 



I have not been able to meet with any specimen bearing the 

 above name, or answering to the description in the Berkeley 

 Herbarium. 













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-JRTicium diaphanum, Speg. Latissime effusum, roucoso- 

 membrauaceum, pellucidum, tenuissimum, matrici laxe adhaerens, 

 margine subdeterminatum, non reflexum ; hymenio vix evoluto, 

 pulverulento-ceraceo, facillime detersili donatum, in sicco carti- 

 lagineum, sordide rufeacenti-testaceum, irregulariter hinc inde 

 contracto-fissum.— Speg. Fung. Fueg p. 95. 



On soft decayed beech-wood. Staten Island ; Tierra del 

 Fuego. 



Closely related to Corticium giganteum (^Peniophora gigantea), 

 but certainly distinct. 







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Suborbiculare, resu- 



pinatum, citrinum demum pallidum, margine tenuissimo pulye- 

 raceo-araclmoideo ; hymenio granulato, pulverulento ; sporae elhp- 

 soideae, 5x3 p.— Berk. $ Curt, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) x. 



p. 336. 



4002 



On bark. Cuba. In very small scattered patches, citron or 

 whitish, thin, farinaceous or pulverulent ; margin indeterminate, 

 mealy. 



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