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150 MR. GEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHORE^l. 



Very thin, like a wash of paint on the bark, pale yellowish, 

 indeterminate, broadly effused. 



- Corticium flaveolum, Ufassee, n. sp. Effusum, membrana- 

 ceum, matrici laxe adherens, margine determinatum ; hymenio 

 glabro, pallide flavente ; sporse cylindraceo-ellipsoideae, utrinque 



obtusse, 7 X 5 /k. (Type in Herb. Kew.) 

 On trunk of tree-fern. Britain (Kew). 

 Two or three inches broad, suborbicular or variously lobed, 



clear but pale primrose -yellow. 



Corticium echinosporum, Ellis. Effusum, indeterminatura ; 

 hymenio sulphureo-flavo, tenui, molli, submembranaceo, subiculo 

 floccoso laxe compacto marginemque evanidum ; sporse globosse 

 echinulatse, 4-5 /i diam. 

 Exs.: Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. 608. 



On wood and bark of pine. N. America. 



Forming a thin, separable, pale yellow film, indeterminate; 

 patches connected by white cobweb-like byssoid mycelium. 

 Hymenium minutely pulverulent. A fine and well-marked 

 species. 



Corticium emplastum, Berk, fy Broome. Effusum, tenue, 

 substrato niveo marginem angustum efformante; hymenio glar 

 berrimo alutaceo rimoso; sporse ellipsoidese, 5x3ju. — Berk, q 

 Broome in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xiv. p. 70. (Type in Herb. 

 Berk. n. 3957.) 



On dead wood. Ceylon. 



Consisting at first of small patches which usually become 

 confluent ; plant very thin, margin byssoid ; hymenium sometimes 

 reddish brown, becoming cracked and showing the white fibrillose 

 subiculum. 



Corticium ceraceum, Berk. <$r Bav. Resupinatum, effusum, 

 adglutinatum, immarginatum, armeniacum, subiculo pallidiore; 

 hymenio glaberrimo, nitido; sporse cylindraceo-ellipsoidesB vix 

 curvulae, 18-20 x 7-8 fx.— Bav. Fung. Car. n. 29.— Corticium 



4r Curt, in Cuban Fungi, n. 446. — JExs 



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446. (Type in Herb. Berk. 3959.) 



On bark and wood. United States ; Cuba. 



Broadly effused, sometimes with a well-defined margin ; hy- 

 menium brownish ochre, waxy, cartilaginous looking, much con- 





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