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Mtt. GEOBGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOBE.E. 



157 



& 



Pusillum, stellato- 



orbiculare, rubrum, margine elevato ; hymenio demum atro- 



xiv. p. 71. 



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Herb 



On dead wood. Ceylon. 



Sometimes erumpent, at others superficial, consisting of minute 

 circular patches 5 centim. across. Very thin, margin free, 

 raised, pale below, several sometimes confluent ; spores not seen, 

 the specimens are evidently immature. 



Corticium 



$ Curt. Aurifbrme; pileo 



zonato postice albido rugoso glabrescente, antice umbrino velu- 

 tiuo ; hymenio ritnoso ex ochraceo rufo. — Berk. Sf Curt. Fung. 

 Car. Inf. No. 2380. 



On oak. 



Pileus ear-shaped, l|-2 inches across; dirty white behind, 

 rugose and nearly smooth, zoned in front; the extreme edge 

 umber, velvety. Hymenium at first ochraceous, then rufous, 

 cracked, the cracks at first radiating. 



There is no specimen of the above in the Berkeley Herbarium, 

 and judging from the description alone the species cannot be a 

 true Corticium, but rather a Stereum. 



CoimcTUM bicolob, Peck. Tenue, membranaceum, flaccidum, 

 glabrum, e matrice separabile, subtus viridi-luteum, superne 

 album.— Peck in 26th Report N. York State Mus. p. 72. 



On rotten wood. Center, New York. 



Cobticium vibide, Preuss. Effusum, membranaceum, tenue, 

 ochraceo-virens, ambitu concolore, glabro ; hymenio setulis 

 erectis albis spam's vestito ; papilis rotundatis, magnis, sparsis ; 

 sporis ovatis.— Preuss. in Linnoea, 1851, p. 152. 



On damp wood of Pinus sylvestris. Europe. 



Evidently not a good Corticium as at present defined. 



Cobticium ? Ulmi, Lasch. Late effusum, subcarnoso-mem- 

 branaceum, e cinereo ochraceum ; ambitu albo-radiato ; hymenio 

 d ense papillose, albo pulverulento, sporis subrotundo-ovoideis. 



Thelepbora Ulmi, Lasch, in Bot. Zeit. 1853. 



One! 



m. Germany. 



It is difficult to say from the above description whether the 

 8 Pecies is a Corticium or a resupinate Stereum. It cannot be a 

 Thelephora as now understood. 







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