200 



MR. GEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOREJ3. 



Broadly effused, thick, following the irregularities of the wood, 

 rather thick when dry, firm ; hymenium ochraceous, with tinge 

 of red here and there or reddish-ochre all over, cracked, showing 

 the paler subiculum ; margin irregular, thin. 



Stereum L^:viGATU\f, Speg. Eesupinatum, effusum, coriaceo- 

 cartilagineum, perfecte determinatum, crassiusculum, matrici 

 totum ad! iserens, quandoque hie inde ambitu vix liberum; pileis 

 orbicularibus ssepe plurihus confluent i bus, applanatis centro plus 

 minusve rugoso-scrupulosis, pluries concentrice fumose zonatia, 

 carneo-fuscescentibus, nubilosis, zona carneo-flavescente latius- 

 cula ornatis. — Speg. Fung. Arg. Pug. iii. n. 24. 



On beams forming a bridge. Argentine Republic. 

 Pileus 3-10 centim. diam. Perhaps a state of som 



Met 



Var. mesopoda, Speg. Fung. Arg. Pug. iv. n. 31 ; pileis orbicu- 

 laribus, 10-15 mm. diam., udis carnosulo-lentis, flexibillissimis 

 subhygrophanis, explanato-subcupulatis, vix centro umbonatuli*, 

 siccis cupulato-contractis, umbone centrali valde prominente, 

 umbilicato, intus glaberrimis carneo-subpurpureis, lineis satura- 

 tioribus v. pallide fulvescentibus zonatis, margine integerrimo 

 obtusiusculo, extus etiam glabris pallide et sordide fulvescentibus, 

 centro in stipitem parvulum 2-3 mm. 1*5-2 mm. crassiusculum 

 glabrum abrupte attenuatis. 



On rotten worked wood. Argentine Republic. 



Stereum insula be, Berk. Sf Broome. Totum resupinatum, 

 irregulare fusco-limitatum ; hymenio sordide ochraceo, rimoso; 

 margine strigoso, dein nudo ; sporae subglobosae, 4 /j. — Berk, of 

 Broome in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xiv. p. 66. (Type in Herb. 

 Berk. n. 3864.) 



On smooth bark. Ceylon. 



Thin, entirely aduate; margin blackish, byssoid or strigose 

 when young, becoming smooth ; hymenium dirty ochre, often 

 cracked ; substance blackish brown. Forming little irregular 

 patches. 



Fr. Sublignosum, crassum, resupinatum, 



CANDIDUM 



gr 



lento, candido; sporae ellipsoid eae, 6x4 p. — Fr. Epicr. p. 552. 



N. 



Fung. n. 617. — Exs. : Eav. Fung 

 120 ; Ellis, N. Amer. Fung. 1206. 









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