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ME. GEOEGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOEE^l . 191 



dulo (subcrispato in sicco) non vel vix pruinuloso; hymenio 

 piano vel undulato, in juventute pallide rufescente, came prui- 

 nuloso, per aetatem stratose revivescente, stratis inferis sordide 

 testaceis. — Speg. Fung. Fueg. n. 85. 



On old trunks of Fagus antarctica. Tierra del Fuego. 



A very fine species, at first sight recalling an old form of 

 Stereum rugosum. 



Steeeum seeiceo-nitens, Speg. S. pileis sparsis vel laxe ag- 

 gregatis, ssepe confluentibus, coriaceis, rigidulis, effuso-reflexis 

 vel subcupulato-resupinatis, 2-3 cm. diam.; margine acutis, 

 superne dense laciniato-lobatis, extus adpresse puberulis vel 

 subvillosis, postice rufescente-subtabacinis, antice canescentibus, 

 sericeo-nitentibus, non vel vix obsoleto-zonatis ; hymenio piano 

 vel spurie undulato vel tuberculoso lutescenti-carneo, primo 

 parce albo pruinuloso. — Speg. Fung. Fueg. n. 86. 



On fallen decayed beech-trunks. Tierra del Puego. 



Stereum rtjgostjm, Fr. Suberosum, rigidum ; pileo effuso 

 breviterque reflexo, obtuse marginato, demum glabro, spadiceo ; 

 hymenio impolito, pruinoso, trito subcruentato ; sporae cylin- 

 draceo-ellipsoideae, utrinque obtusissime, 10-12x4-5 p. A, hy- 

 menio lutescente ; B, cinereo-livido.— Fr. Epicr. p. 552 ; Hym. 

 Eur. p. 643; Berk. Outl. p. 271.— Thelephora La 

 Berk, in 8m. Eng. Fl. v. pt. 2, p. 173 (specimen from 

 Herb. Berk. n. 3801).— Exs. : Jack, Leiuer u. Sitz. 837 

 F. Aust. 331 ; Sacc. Myc. Ven. 409 ; Karst. F. Fenn. 249 ; Klotz. 

 (Eab.) 503 ; Syd. Myc. March. 814 ; Eoum. Fung. Sel. Gall. 

 504 ; Thuem. Myc. Univ. 1007 ; Cooke, Brit. Fung. ed. 2, 407 ; 











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Desm. Cr. Fr. ser. 1, 523 ; Berk. Brit. Fung. 145. 



On trunks. Britain; Europe; United States; 

 Fl *ego ; S. Africa ; Ceylon ; W. Australia. 



Very variable in form, wholly adnate, partly reflexed, or pezi- 

 zaeform. Agrees with 8. sanguinolenttm in becoming red when 

 bruised, but distinguished by the pruinose hymenium and the 

 larger straight spores. 



Var. aurantiacum ; pileo tomentoso, pallido ; hymenio au- 

 rantiaco.^P. Karst. Symb. Myc. Fenn. x. p. 64. 







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