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tracted in drying, sometimes cracked and showing the pale 

 fibrilline subiculnm. 



The present species was first named Corticium ceraceum, and 

 issued in Ravenal's Exsiccati under that name, and was after- 

 wards described by Berkeley as Corticium molle by mistake. 























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Subiculum ampluni, 



tomentosum, laete luteum ; hymenio tenui, flavo, rimoso; sporae 

 ellipticse, 5x6X3u. 



6c Curt, in Grev 



(Ty P 



Herb. Berk.)— Exs 



On wood. United States. 



"Subiculum spreading widely, bright saffron-yellow ; hymenium 

 thin, more or less yellow. A curious species 



) 



In the original description the subiculum is described as 

 "laeteritio," a printer's error for "laete luteo" as corrected by 

 Berkeley. 



Corticium c^ruleum, Ft. Late effusum, adnatum, tomen- 

 tosum, amoeue caeruleum, ambitu byssino concolore subalbi- 

 cante; hymenio ceraceo-molli, sicco pallescente; sporae ellipsoideae, 

 8x4 p.— Fr. Hym. Eur. 651 ; Berk. Outl. 274 ; Cooke, Handb. 

 i. 322 ; Stevens. Brit. Fung. p. 277 ; Wint. Krypt. Fl. 335 

 Auricularia phosphorea, Sow. t. 350. Thelephora caerulea, Berk. 



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Exs 



Myc 



"Westendorp 



M 





1207 ; Desmaz. Crypt. Fr. 307. 



Irregularly effused, adnate, or sometimes with the extreme 

 margin free ; margin fibrous, radiating, buff, or whitish ; hy- 

 menium when in full vigour intense blue, satiny, often becoming 

 pale in the centre. Said to be phosphorescent. 



On wood. Britain ; Europe : N. America ; India ; Ceylon ; 

 Madeira; Australia. 



Coeticium viOLACEO-LiviDUM, Fr. Subeffusum, adnatum, 

 induratum, violaceo-lividum, ambitu pallidiore ; hymenio spurie 

 corrugato, tuberculoso ; pruina tenui albida consperso ; sporae 

 cylindraceo-ellipsoidea;, curvuhe, 8x4fi.—Fr. Hym. Eur. 655; 

 Wint. Krypt. Fl. 332 ; Stevens. Brit. Fung. 280 ; P. Karst. Myc. 



•Thelephora 



Fenn. 318. 



(Specimen from Fries 











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