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helvelloides, Schwein. Syn. Car. 1041 ; Syn. JST. Amer. Fung. 068 ; 

 Fr. Fpicr. p. 541. (Specimen from Schweinitz in Herb. Berk.) 



On the ground and on wood. U. States. 



Broadly effused, thick, apparently more or less spongy when 

 fresh, becoming rigid when dry ; hymenium dark, cracked. In 

 one part of the specimen I have seen, the under portion of the 

 subiculum runs off into a few thick rhizomorphoid cords, which 

 appear to have extended into the substratum. 



Corticium filamestostjm, Berk. $f Ourt. Subiculum molle, 

 tomentosum, fibrillosum, pallidum ; hymenio pulverulento demum 

 glabrato, ochraceo vel subolivaceo; sporae oblongo-ellipsoideae, 

 6x3 p.— Berk. Sf Curt, in Grev. i. p. 178. (Type Herb. Berk. 

 3999.) 



On wood. Alabama. 



** Subiculum consisting of soft tomentose threads, over which 

 the ochraceo us or olivaceous pulverulent hymenium forms a thin 

 stratum." (Berkeley.) 



Membranaceous, like a thin skin but not cartilaginous, tender 

 and run over with thick branched filaments. Hymenium for the 

 most part downy and barren, but here and there smooth, even, 

 and minutely cracked when dry. Whole plant separable from 

 the substratum. 



Corticium flayo-yibens, Massee. Late effusum ; hymenio 

 pulverulento rhabarbarino in pulvinulos fracto, e floccis bys- 

 soideis flavis oriundo ; sporae ellipsoidese, 10 X 6 /n. — Corticium 

 reticulatum, Berk. 6f Broome in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xiv. 

 p. 69. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. n. 4028.) 



On bark. Ceylon. 



Broadly effused, adnate, spongy, broken up in a sinuous or 

 reticulate manner, minutely velvety under a lens, cracked in a 

 tesselated manner ; margin radiato-fimbriate ; colour when dry 

 yellowish green. The name given by Berkeley and Broome is 

 antedated bv Fries. 



Cokticium chloeinum, Berk. $ Curt. Tenue, fragile, oliva- 

 ceum demum granulatum ; sporsD ellipsoideae, 7x5 /i. — Berk. 4' 

 Curt, in Grev. i. p. 179. (Type in Herb. Berk, n 4059.) 



On Abies. Alabama. 



Forming a thin brittle olive-green membrane, which is at 



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