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ME. GE0EGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOEEiB. 























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Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. p. 59. (Type in Herb. Berk. 3776. 

 Stereum phalenarum, Kalchhr. MS. 



On wood and sticks. Tasmania ; Australia ; New Zealand ; 

 Venezuela. 



Pileus effused behind, with the margin reflected, about 1 inch 

 long and several inches in breadth, from the confluence of many 

 individuals. Coriaceous, rather rigid, zoned, clothed with a short 

 hairy pile, often plicate in young specimens, of a rich brown, be- 

 coming grey in the older parts, or when the outer coat has 

 vanished dark brown. Hymenium cracked, smooth, reddish 

 brown, with frequently a flesh-coloured bloom. 



This species is intermediate between 8. purpureum and 8. spa- 

 diceum, but is distinct from either. The hymenium is nearly of 

 the same colour with that of 8. quercinum, with a beautiful flesh- 

 coloured bloom. (Berkeley.) 



Readily recognized by the presence of numerous projecting 

 hairs on the hymenium resembling miniature bottle-brushes; 

 often barren. Not a good Stereum. 



Steeettm Kalchbeenneei, Massee. Sessile, membranaceum ; 

 pileis postice coarctatis, confluentibus, planiusculis, villosis, 

 zonatis, canescentibus ; hymenio lsevi, glabro, albo-lilacino ; sporae 

















ellipsoideae, 



4-5 fi. — Stereum anoemum, Kalchbrenner w 



Flora, 1876, p. 424.— Eccs. : Thuem. My 

 men from Kalchbrenner in Herb. Berk.) 



(Speci- 



On old trunks. 

 Related to S. I 



Africa 



the thinner texture 



closely-zoned pileus, and lilac hymenium. 



Steeeum lttgubeis, Cooke. Coriaceum, rigidum ; pileo effuso 

 reflexoque, tomentoso, zonato, cinereo-pallescente, zonis obscuri- 

 oribus, margine subacuto, pallido ; hymenio subpapilloso, glabro, 

 nudo, atro. — Cooke, Grev. xii. p. 85. 



On logs. New Zealand. 



A very distinct species by its black obtusely papillate hyme- 

 nium. Pilei about an inch deep, often densely imbricated, and 

 extending laterallv several inches. 



Steeeum 



ilari, ol an c 



Sessile, reflexum ; pileo semiorbi- 





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