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MB. GE0BGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOBEJ3. 







On vegetable soil, old trees, Ac. Darjeeling, 7500 



Ceylon ; Cordova. 



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than others, in consequence of which it is minutely wrinkled 

 longitudinally when dry ; 1 inch or more long, 2-3 inches broad, 

 umbonate, sessile, effused behind, wood-coloured, with brown 

 fasciae, and numerous narrow zones minutely tomentose, wrinkled 

 longitudinally. Hymenium whitish, here and there assuming a 

 yellow tinge; much cracked, with the fissures silky within. 

 Undoubtedly allied to 8. ostrea and lolatum, but differing in its 

 cracked pale hymenium and other points. (Berkeley 



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reniform 



tomentose and zoned, ochraceous with brown tinge ; hymenium 



colour 



dry. 



Steeetjm contbabittm, Berk. Eigidum, conchiforme; piteo 

 nigro-zonato, hispido, hie illic glabrescente, margine pallido; 

 hymenio candido, revivescente ; sporae ellipsoidese, 7 X 4-5 //. 

 Berk, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xvi. p. 52. (Type in Herb. Kei 



Japan (' Challenger ' Exp.) ; N. Zealand. 



Massee 



semi- 

 rugu- 



loso, versus marginem levissime hirsuto albo-sordido ; hymenio 



alahro. lutesfiftntft. — Thp.Ipnhnra fStarAiim^ rhicnooilus. Lev. tfl 



glabro, lutescente. 



Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 



On trunks. Chili. 



hirsutum 



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Stebetjm badians, Fr. (PI. VII. f. 5.) TJmbonato-sessile, 



coriaceo-rigidum, utrinque applanatum, glabratum, nitidum, a 

 basi dense fibris innatis radians, zonis badiis variegatum ; hymenio 

 levi, pallescente ; sporae subglobosae, 4 /x diam. — Fr. Nov. Symo. 

 Myc. p. 110. (Specimen from Fries in Herb. Berk. n. 3772.) 



On wood. Mexico. 



Intermediate between 8. sericeum and S. complicatutn, very 

 thin, but rigid, margin often lobed, lobes overlapping; pileus 

 silky, with fine deep furrows radiating to the margin. 



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