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MB. GEOBGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOBE^). 



Pileus 3-4 inches across, infundibuliform, chocolate-brown, 

 coriaceous, repeatedly zoned, velvety, clothed, more especially in 

 the centre, with a dense forest of flat branched, acutely laciniated, 

 velvety processes continuous with the paler substance; edge 

 lobed. Stem |-1 inch high, attached by a disciform base, round, 

 nearly even, of the same colour as the pileus, obscurely velvety, 

 Hymenium white or very pale umber, smooth. 



Nothing can be more curious than the dense mass of processes 

 with which the centre of the pileus is clothed, which, if torn from 

 it, would certainly be described as a new species of branched 

 Thelephora. Iu age the border has but few processes, and in old 

 specimens they appear to be washed away, in which state the 

 species was originally described, from specimens communicated 

 by Sir E. Schomburgk, in Ann. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1844), p- 327. 

 {Berkeley.) 



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3-4 



lines thick, minutely velvety, ochraceous-umber ; pileus thin, 

 reddish-umber when dry, zoned, strigose, margin rugulose. 



Var. hyloc rater, Speg. Var. pileo cyathoideo-infundibulan, 

 7 cm. diam., 5 cm. alt., coriaceo-membranaceo, rigidulo, superne 

 concentrice subobsolete zonato, radiatim rugoso, interstitns 

 rugaram, prsecipue ad confluentiam zonarum, saepius tomento 

 majusculo, flocculoso, albo-subgriseo vestito, ceterum glabro, 

 ligneo pallescente ; margine integro vel repando-subcrenato ac 

 plus minusve dense tomentoso ; hymenio albo-carneo, pulvere 

 detersili albo adsperso, leniter flabellatim undulato ; stipite tereti, 

 hymenio concolore v. vix fuscescente, glabro v. irregulariter 

 griseo-velutino, 1-1*5 cm. long., 3-4 mm. crass. — Stereum hylo- 

 crater, Speg. Fung. Guar. Pug. i. n. 71. 



On putrescent decorticated wood. Paraguay. 



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Steeeum elevatum, Berk. $ Cooke. (PI. VII. f. 1.) Pi le0 

 cyathiformi, zonato, castaneo, subtiliter velutino ; stipite elongato, 

 irregulari, rugoso, pulverulento; hymenio striatulo, leviter zonato, 

 pallido; sporae globosse, 4-5 /i diam. — Berk. Sf Cooke in Journ. 



Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xv. p. 388. (Type in Hb. Kew.) 



On dead wood. Brazil (Bio Jurua). 



Pileus 1 in. across, f in. high, zoned, chestnut, minutely velvety ; 

 stem 4 in. high, \ in. thick, dilated and grooved at the apex, 



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