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MR. GEORGE MASSEE Otf THE THELEPHOREjE . 



Originates below the bark, which eventually becomes torn and 

 reflexed, exposing the hymenium, which is at first purplish, 

 becoming almost white ; slightly viscid when moist. 



Corticium latitats, P. Karst. Effusum, admodum tenue, 

 adnatum, subcorticale, epidermide divulsa nudum, album, ambitu 

 indeterminato subbyssino ; hymenio tenuissimo, submembrana- 

 ceo, contiguo, papillas sat confertis minutis, conoideis instructo, 

 dilutissime lutescente; sporis oblongatis vel ellipsoideo-oblon- 

 gatis, rectis vel curvulis, utrinque obtusissimis, primitus guttulis 

 2 majusculis pr&ditis dein e guttulatis vel tenuiter uniseptatis, 



9-15 x 4-5 



Karst. in Rev. My 



On decayed branches of Fyrus Aucuparia. Finland. 



Sterile hyphse branched, septate, very thin, hyaline, 3-5/* 

 thick ; basidia 6 /i thick. 



From the description it appears doubtful whether this species 

 is more than a mere form, not even variety, of Corticium come- 

 dens. 





























Corticium uvidum, Fr. Late effusum, tenuissimum (lig n0 

 nee ut priora cortici), subinnatum, ramos decorticatos ambiens, e 

 roseo-lilacino expallens ; hymenio laBvissimo, glaberrimo madido ; 

 sporae fusiformi-ellipsoidese, 6 x 2-3 /x. — Fr. Epicr. p. 565 ; Fr. 

 Rym. Eur. p. 657. — Exs. : Sydow, 



p. 657.— Eocs.i Sydow, Myc. March. 1607. 

 On fallen branches of beech. Sweden. 



Habit of C. comedens, but very thin, and with very much smaller 

 and different-shaped spores. 









D. Species dubice. 



Corticium Berkeley astjm, Ces. Lignicolum ; crusta effusa, 

 indeterminata, ex helvolo luteola, superficie sequabili, a matnee 



non solvenda. 

 Borneo. 



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Corticium lilaceum, Rabenh. C. matrici arete adpressum, 

 effusum, crustaceum, rimosum, constanter lilacinum, mar^me 

 nudo, papillis sparsis. — Thelephora lilacea, Rabenh. in Bot. Zeit- 

 1853, p. 235. 



On bark. Italy. 



Allied to Corticium caJceum. 











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