MR. GEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHORE EX. 135 
CONIOPHORA AUREA, Massee.  Effusa, membranacea, aureo- 
fulva, ambitu araneoso-tomentosa; hymenio pulverulento ; spore 
ellipsoides utrinque acute, aureo-fulvee, 12 x 6 u.— Thelephora 
aurea, Pers. Myc. Eur. i. p. 142.  Hypochnus aureus, Fr. 
Obs. ii. p. 281; Syst. Myc. iii. p. 289. Corticium (Hypochnus) 
aureum, Fr. Hym. Eur. 661. (Specimen in Herb. Berk., from 
Fries, n. 3894.) 
On bark. Europe. 
Hyphe generally thicker than diameter of spores, thick- 
walled, often forming H-like branches. Basidia subclavate, 
tapering at the apex into a single sterigma. 
CoNIOPHORA SUBDEALBATA, Massee.  Effusa, determinata; 
hymenio ochraceo-olivaceo, pulverulento ; spore ellipsoidex, 
deorsum apiculate, ochracee, 12 x8 p.—Corticium subdeal- 
batum, Berk. d Broome in Grevillea. (Type in Herb. Berk. 
n. 3891.) 
On bark. England; N. America. 
Ochraceous olive, broadly effused, thin; surface pulverulent, 
often with paler barren patches, not cracking (except when it 
has separated from the matrix, and then torn). 
CONIOPHORA SUBMEMBRANACEA, Cooke. Late effusa, secerni- 
bilis; hymenio fulvo-umbrino e sporis pulverulento; spore 
elliptico-fusoidex, fulve, 10-12 x 5 u.— Cooke, Grev. viii. p. 89. 
Thelephora submembranacea, Berk. d Broome in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xiv. p. 64. (Type in Herb. Berk. 3635.) 
On bark. Central Province, Ceylon. 
CONIOPHORA BERKELEYI, Massee, n. sp. Effusa, crassa, determi- 
nata; hymenio brunneo demum purpurascente, rimoso, interstitiis 
sericeis ; spore ellipsoide, deorsum apiculate, fulve, 12 x 8 p.— 
(Type in Herb. Berk. n. 3982 a) along with Corticium lactescens, 
Berk., which it superficially resembles. The margin is sometimes 
minutely byssoid. 
On decorticated wood. England. 
CONIOPHORA DRYINA, Massee. Subiculo vix distincto; hymenio 
erassiuseulo, rhabarbarino-rufo vel cinnamomeo, pulverulento ; 
spore ellipsoidex, cinnamomee, 10-12 x4-5 p.—Corticium 
dryinum, Berk. 4 Cooke in Grev. i. p. 179. (Type in Herb. 
Berk. n. 4507.) 
On oak, Alabama; United States. 
