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noideis composito; hymenio fulvo-brunneo, madido glabro, sub- 
ceraceo, sicco sporis maculato atque plus minus rimoso inter 
fissuras pallidum subiculum ostendente; spore ellipsoidew, colo- 
rate, 10 x 3 u — Corticium suffocatum, Peck, 40th Report N. York 
State Mus. p. 48. . 
On the under surface of fallen trunks of Pinus and Abies. 
U. States. 
ContopHora FUSCA (Pers.), Cooke. Late effusa, ambitu tenuis, 
dilutior subtusque tomentosa; hymenio contiguo, subrugoso, 
nudo ; spore ellipsoidez, ochracex, 10 x 7-8 u.—Cooke, Grev. viii. 
p.89. Corticium fuscum, Pers. Obs. i. p. 38; Fr. Hym. Eur. 
p. 651; Karst. Myc. Fenn. p. 314; Wint. Krypt. Fl. p. 835. (Spe- 
cimenin Herb. Kew.)— Ess.: Fung. New Jersey, U.S.A., no. 3425. 
On bark. Europe; United States. 
Closely resembling Corticium laxum, Fr., which, as proved by 
a specimen from Fries in Herb. Kew, is a true Thelephora. 
CONIOPHORA FUMOSA, Massee. Effusa, determinata, tenuis; 
hymenio pulverulento, cinereo; spore subglobose fusce, 5-6 u 
diam. — Thelephora ceerulea, Pers., var. fumosa, Myc. Eur. 
p. 147.  Hypochnus fumosus, Fr. Tomentella Menieri, Pat. 
Tab. Analyt. Fung. sér. IL. p. 32, f. 580. 
On wood and bark. Europe. 
CONIOPHORA CONSPERSA, Massee. Late et indeterminate 
effusa, membranacea, ambitu byssina, pelliculaque aureis; spo- 
rarum acervulis nullis floccis obvolutis nudis, olivaceo-cinereis. 
—Hypochnus conspersus, Linn. v. p. 529; Epier. p. 570. 
On bark. Brazil. 
CONIOPHORA MUSTIALAENSIS, Massee. Late effusa, ambitu 
byssina, albicans. Hymenium  tenuissimum, submembra- 
naceum, sporis et floccis laxe intertextis compositum, primo 
flavidum, dein cerulescens, zona flavida cingente, papillis vel 
granulis rotundatis, inzqualibus, congestis; spore spheroidee 
vel spheroideo-ellipsoidex, dilutissime flavide vel fuscidule, 
diam. 4 u.—Hypochnus mustialaénsis, Karst. Not. Sällsk. pro 
Faun. et Flor. Förh. xi. 1871, p. 222. Corticium mustialaense, 
Karst. Myc. Fenn. (Basid.) p. 320; Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 705. 
On rotten birch. Finland. 
Hymenium at length becoming greenish or subolivaceous. 
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