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MB. GEOBGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHORE^!. 165 



subzonato ; margine undulato ; stipite deorsum attenuato, tenui ; 

 hymenio pruinoso, concolore ; sporae ellipsoideae, 5x3 /u. — Cooke, 

 Crev. ix. p. 12. (Type in Herb. Kew.) Spruce, Lichenes 

 Amazonici et Andini, 812. 



Resembling S. elegans, Fr., in size and form, but very different 

 m colour and texture. It has very much the appearance of new 

 washleather. Stem about the same length as the pileus, about 

 an inch. {Cooke.) 



Sterettm Thozetii, Berk. S. pileo infundibuliformi, tomentoso, 

 demum radiato, subzonato, pallido ; hymenio rimoso, ex albido 

 castaneo, polito ; sporae globosae, 5-6 p. — Berk. Australian Fungi, 

 n. 268. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. n. 3744.) 



On trunks. Eockhampton, Australia. 



Pileus 1-2 5 cm. across ; stem scarcely 2 cm. long, attenuated 

 downwards. 



Sterettm tenerrimttm, Berk. Sf Bav. Pusillum ; pileo cyathi- 

 formi, cito lacerato, tomentoso, pallido, glabrescente ; stipite fili- 

 formi ; sporae globosae, 3 n.—Berk. Sf Bav. in Grev. i. p. 162. 



On the ground amongst grass and mosses. Upper Carolina. 



Pileus 2-3 lines broad, cup-shaped, pallid, soon lobed and split, 

 at first tomentose ; margin sometimes deeply plicate; stem thread- 

 shaped, 3-| inch high, whitish, tomentose ; hymenium even or 

 finely striate. 



This is very different from small forms of S. Bavenalii. (Berke- 



ley, l c.) 



$ Broome. (PI. VII. f. 4.) Gregarium 



ex mfundibuliformi flabellatum, tenerum, pallide rufum vel gn- 

 seum, in stipitem tenuem brevem angustatum ; sporae subglobosae, 

 3 P—Berk. Sf Broome in Journ. Linn. Soe. (Bot.) xiv. p. 65. 



(Type in Herb. Berk. n. 3764.) 



On bark. Ceylon ; tropical forests south of the island. 

 Gregarious or scattered, |-± inch high, about one line across 

 at apex, afterwards splitting down one side. 



Stereum petalodes, Berk. Coriaceum ; primitus infundibu- 



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 Berk, in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, ix. 1852, p. 198. (Type in Herb 

 B erk. n. 3754.) 



On wood and branches. St. Domingo ; Java. 





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