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Stereum Bavenelii, Berk. Sf Curt. (PI. VII. f . 2.) Gregarium 



e communi mycelio oriundum ; pileo cyathif ormi, f usco ; margine 

 pallidiore, plicato ; stipite gracili, tomentoso hymenioque pallidis ; 

 sporse ellipticse, 6x4 /i. — Berk. Sf Curt, in Grev. i. p- 

 (Type in Herb. Berk. n. 3743.) Bxs. : Eav. Fung. Car. 4. 



On the earth in swamps and on decayed wood. Alabama ; 

 Brazil. 



Pileus very variable in size, from a line to an inch across, cup- 

 shaped, sometimes split on one side, brownish with a slight ad- 

 mixture of red, paler towards the plicate margin ; stem |-1| i nch 

 high, \ a line thick, gregarious, springing from a common my- 

 celium, finely tomentose, pallid as well as the hymenium. Closely 

 allied to S. nitidulum, Berk. {Berkeley, I. c.) 



The hymenium is sometimes pale cinnamon or ochraceous when 

 dry. Several plants often becoming confluent by the edges oi 

 the pilei. 



Stereum Sowerbeii, Massee. Niveum, infundibuliforme, 

 tandem decolorans, sursum aculeato-scabrurn ; hymenio e setuloso ; 

 sporse ellipsoidese, hyalinse, 5 x 4/i. — Thelephora Sowerbeii, Berk. 











Bur. 632. (Type 



Nat. Hist. ser. 3, xv. p. 320 ; Fr. Uf 

 Sowerby's herbarium in Herb. Berk. 



n. 3553.) — Elvella pannosa, Sowerhy, t. 155. 



On the ground. Britain ; United States ; Australia. 



Mr. Sawyer has at last met with the true plant of Sowerby at 

 Burnham Beeches, where it has since been seen by others. "When 

 fresh it is of a pure white ; though when exposed to the weather 

 it assumes a dingy yellow tinge here and there, and therefore 

 cannot be the same as the Cotterstock plant described below, oi 

 which we now give a figure. The hymenium is not in the slightest 

 degree setulose. The pileus is rough, with radiating processes 

 projecting from the surface. Sowerby's figure was evidently taken 

 from discoloured specimens, but is very faithful. {Berkeley.) 



From 1-2 inches high ; resembling in form Craterellus cornu- 

 copioides in miniature ; margin of pileus more or less laciniate or 

 cut ; stem variable, sometimes distinct and thin, at others several 

 more or less confluent at the base. The spores and very compact 

 substance prove the plant to be a Stereum. It has no affinity]with 

 Cladoderris as suggested by Fries in Summa Veg. Scand. p. 332. 



Stereum xanthelltjm, Cooke. Coriaceo-membranaceum, 

 ochraceo-flavidum ; pileo inf undiduliformi, glabro, opaco, leviter 













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