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Steretjm hibstttum:, Fr. Coriaceum, rigens ; pileo eff uso re- 

 flexoque, strigoso-hirsuto, subzonato, pallescente ; margine obtusi- 

 usculo, luteo ; hymenio levi, glabro, nudo, exsucco, lutescente 

 varioque colore ; sporae globosae, 5 /i diam. — Fr. Fpicr. p. 549 ; 

 Fr. Hy m . Eur. p. 639 ; BTussey, i. t. 58 ; Berk- Outl. t. 17.— The- 



Syn. p. 570. 



Willd. Ber. p. 397 ; Syst. My 



Frig 



t. 27 ; Fl. Ban. t. 1199.— Fkcs. : Eab. Fung. Eur. 1069, 1109 



Roum 



Klotzsch, Herb. Myc. (Eab 



Myc. March. 312 ; Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. 1204 



), 211; Berk. Brit. Fung. 146; 

 Cooke, Fung. Brit. 307, ed. 2, 108 ; Westend. Cr. Be _ 

 P. Karat. F. Fenn. 129, 433 ; Thuem. Fung. Austr. 10, 332, & 

 821 ; Sacc. Myc. Ven. 32 ; Fuckel, Fung. Bhen. 1321 ; Desm. 

 Cr. Fr. ser. i. 116 ; Ayres, Myc. Brit. 53. 



On trunks and branches. Britain ; Europe ; United States ; 

 British N. America; Vancouver Island; Mexico; Ecuador; 

 Cuba; Venezuela; Bombay; Sikkim Himalayas; Australia; 

 Tasmania ; New Zealand ; Chatham Island. 



Very 



broadly 



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common on logs and trunks ; when growing on smaller branches 

 there is often a broad free margin ; the pilei imbricate, and hyme- 

 nium inferior ; often commences as small roundish patches, many 

 of which become confluent. Pileus coarsely strigose, dirty ochra- 

 ceous, soon becoming pale ; hymeniuta most frequently clear 

 ochre, often with varying shades of 

 globose spores separate this from 

 plicatum, Ac. 



grey 



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Var. 8FBCOSTATUM ; hymenio nudo, exsucco, vage costato lu- 



incarnato 



Stereum 



Karst. in Hedw 



Britain; Lapland. 





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Var. CKisTFLATUM; pileo hirto griseo, hymenio cameo 

 Quelet, Fung. Jura, iii. t. i. f . 15. 

 France. 



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Stebeum illudens, Berk. Coriaceum, subrigidum ; pileo effuso 

 reflexoque, zonato, radiato-plicato, hirsute, spadiceo; hymenio 

 l*vi, glabro, corneo, rufo ; sporffl ellipsoidese, 6-7 X 4 /u 



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