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Cobticium terbeum, Berk. Resupinatum, terreo-fuscuin, 

 subvinosum, primo eontiguum, dein areolato-rimosum, setulosum ; 

 margine angustissimo. — Berk, in Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 184. 

 (Type in Herb. Berk. n. 4004.) 



On bark. New Zealand. 



The type specimen is sterile, and looks like an immature 



Thelephora. 



Cobticium suffultum, Berk. <$f Broome. Effusum, album 

 vel cinnamomeum ; hymenio molli tomentoso processibus niveis 

 floccosis suffulto. — Berk. Sf Broome in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 

 xiv. p. 72. (Type in Herb. Berk. n. 4015.) 



On dead twigs. Ceylon. 



Effused, closely adnate, rather thick and spongy, ofteu im- 

 marginate ; no spores nor even any trace of a hymeniuin were 

 met with in an examination of the type specimens, which present 

 the appearance of an immature condition of some species. 



Cobticium diminuens, Berk. Sf Curt. Album, stratosum; 

 hymenio cretaceo diminuente subtiliter velutino ; sporse elliptic®, 

 10x5-6 /i.— Berk, fy Curt, in Grev. ii. p. 3. (Type in Herb. 

 Berk. Kew. 4009.)— Ex*. : Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. 718 ; Bav. F. 

 Car. 3. 



On wood. TJ. States ; Havana. 



Consisting of several layers, each separated by a dark line ; 

 hymenium white, diminishing in width eacl 

 to leave a narrow-zoned border. (Berkeley 





















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xpanded 



when dry often ochraceous or with a livid tinge, very minutely 

 woolly, almost resembling a Peniophora under a lens, but there 







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Evidently not a good Corticium. 





Stereum, Pers. (emend.). 

 Hymenium definite inferum, coriaceum, 



strato intermedio 



immuta- 



fibrilloso a pileo inodermeo distinctum, leve, glabrum, l 

 turn persistens ; sporse continue, hyaline vel olivacese. — Stereum, 

 Berg. Obs. Myc. p. 35 ; Fr. Epicr. p. 345 (in part) ; Fr. Sym. 

 Fur. p. 638 (in part). 



The prominent features of the present genus are the inferior 

 hymenium, which is glabrous owing to the absence of cystidja or 

 coloured setae (modified cjstidia), and the velvety or strigosc 































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