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PENIOPHORA QUERCINA, Cooke.  Cartilagineo-membranacea, 
primo adglutinata, dein centro adfixa, undique soluta et demum 
involuta, rigida, subtus glabra nigrescens; hymenio carneo; 
cystidia fusoidea, 50-70 x 15-20 u; spore oblongo-ellipsoidee, 
curvule, 13-15 x 5 u.— Cooke, Grev. viii. p. 20, pl. 125. f.18. Corti- 
cium quercinum, Fr. Epier. p. 563; Hym. Eur. p. 653; Cooke, 
Handb. no. 936 ; Stev. Brit. Fung. ii. p. 278; Berk. Outl. p. 275; 
Wint. Krypt. Fl. p. 373; Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 142. Thele- 
phora quercina, Pers. Syn. p. 573; Fr. Syst. Mye. i. p, 442; 
Elench. p. 186; Nees, Syst. f. 253; Berk. Eng. Fl. v. p. 167. 
Aurieularia corticalis, Bull. t. 436. f. 1. (Specimen in Herb. 
Berk. 3993.)— Exs. : Thumen, Fung. Aust. 325 and 326; Cooke, 
Fung. Brit. 2nd ed. n. 8.; Sace. Myc. Ven. 402; Moug. & Nest. 
679; Desm. Cr. Fr. 465; Cooke, Fung. Brit. 222; Lib. Pl. Cr. 
Ard. fasc. 3, 224; Roum. Fung. Sel. Gal. 103; Klotzsch, Herb. 
Myc. 214; Roum. Fung. Gall. 2908; Fekl. Fung. Rhen. 1311; 
Hark. Fung. N. Amer. 1338 ; Ellis, Fung. N. Jersey, 3489 ; Rabh. 
Fung. Eur. 1211. 
On oak-branches. Europe; United States. 
PENIOPHORA PEZIZOIDES, Massee, n. sp. Subcoriacea, e cupu- 
lari explanata, centro adfixa, extus pallido-villosa; hymenio 
ochraceo, velutino, contiguo; cystidia fusoidea, sub apice rotun- 
dato-coarctata, basi acuta, 50-60 x20 ; spore globose, 4-5 u. 
(Pl. XLVII. ff. 17-19.) (Type in Herb. Kew.) 
On branches of horse-chestnut. England (Kew). 
Resembling a Peziza in habit; sometimes bursting through 
the bark; from 4-4 inch across. Allied to P. quercina. 
PENIOPHORA MORICOLA, Massee. Pileo reflexo, postice decur- 
rente pubescente albido; hymenio velutino, fusco ; cystidia conico- 
acuminata, 50-60 x 12-16 p; spore oblongo-pyriforme, 8x5 u. 
— Stereum moricola, Berk. Grev. i. p. 162. (Typein Herb. Berk. 
n. 3825.) 
On mulberry. Lower Carolina. 
Forming semiorbicular patches $-1 inch across, at first ad- 
pressed, but becoming broadly reflexed on one side; hymenium 
minutely velvety, becoming smooth. 
PENIOPHORA ATROCINEREA, Massee. Effusa, margine libera, 
subtus et ambitu fibrillosa; hymenio cinereo, leviter velutino ; 
eystidia elongato-fusoidea, 80-120 x 10-15 a; spore ellipsoidez, 
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