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MR. OEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOBEJ5. 



On branches. United States ; Vera Cruz. 



"At first orbicular, ferruginous, with a pakr, somewhat 

 byssoid margin, then effused ; edge sometimes free on either 

 side ; hymenium more or less rugose ; when perfect of a brighter 

 or duller ferruginous tint. This species connects Stereum very 



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{Berkeley.) 



Often broadly effused on bark, and with the general appear- 

 ance of Hymenochcete tabacina, thin, irregularly nodulose, from 

 dirty cinnamon to brownish umber, adnate, margin strigose, m 

 old plants sometimes almost smooth : hymenium minutely 

 tomentose owing to the presence of slender thin-walled coloured 



Hymenochffit 



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first circular, the patches often becoming confluent. 



Stebeum conspubcatum, Massee. Eesupinatum, suborbicu- 

 lare ; margine libero, anguste reflexo, spadiceo-villoso ; hymenio 

 fuligineo-umbrino ; sporse subglobosae, 6x5 /a. — Hymenochsete 

 conspurcata, Berk. Sf Curt, in herb. (Type in Herb. Berk, 

 n. 3718.) 



On bark. Venezuela. 



Forming suborbicular blackish umber thin patches |-| inch 

 across ; margin more or less free, with sometimes a tendency to 

 become reflexed on the upper side. 



Stereum balsameum, Peck. Orbiculare v. confluens, resu- 

 pinatum, crassiuisculum atque firmum, subtus subtiliter fulvo- 

 tomentosum ; margine libero, tenui, albido; hymenio brunneo, 

 inaequali, quandoque concentrice zonato, tritis atro-rubro v. 

 purpureo, demum atro. — Peck, 27th Report N. York State Mus. 

 p. 99. 



On bark of Balsamea. U. States. 



Stereum chabtaceum, W. Mey. Chartaceo-membranaceum ; 

 pileis ca>spitosis, rotundatis, subimbricatis, glabris, zonatis, 

 incanis, marginem versus hymenioque lsevi farinoso ochraceis. 

 TV, Mey. Esseq. p. 305 ; Fr. Epicr. p. 546. 



On branches. Surinam. 



Stebeum indubatum, Berk. Durissimum, couch iforme, con- 

 centrice sulcatum, velutinum ; hymenio lsevi, subtiliter pulveru- 

 lento, contextu rhabarbarino ; sporae subglobosae, 6x5 /*. — Berk. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. (B t.) xvi. p. 44. (Type in Herb. Kew.) 















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