142 MR. GEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOREE. 
10 x 4-5 u.—Corticium atrocinereum, Kalchbr. MS. (Type in 
Herb. Kew.) 
On bark. Cape of Good Hope. 
PEsNIoPHORA HABGALLÆ, Cooke.  Suborbieularis, ceracea, 
ochroleuca, margine tenui, tomentosa, uno latere elevato; hy- 
menio subtiliter setuloso ; cystidia fusoidea, 60-70 x 12 u; spore 
subglobosz, 5-6 u.— Cooke, Grev. viii. p. 20, pl. 124. f. 10. Cor- 
tieium Habgalle, Berk. d Broome, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 
p.72. (Type in Herb. Berk. 3970.) 
On dead bark. Habgalla, Ceylon. 
Forming more or less elliptical patches about 1 in. long by 
3 in. wide, and in every instance with a tendency to become 
reflexed on one side, thus forming a transition from the truly 
resupinate to the reflexed species. 
PENIOPHORA GIGANTEA, Massee. Latissime effusa, madida 
tumens, ceracea, hyalino-alba, siccitate cartilaginea, papyracea, 
libera, lactea, ambitu strigoso-radiata; hymenio levi, contiguo, 
velutino ; eystidia fusoidea, 50-60 x 20-30 u; spore ellipsoides, 
10x5-6 u.—Thelephora pergamenea, Pers. Myc. Eur. i. n. 99, 
100. T. gigantea, Fr. Obs. i. p. 152; Pers. Myc. Eur. i. p. 150; 
Berk. Engl. Fl. v. p. 170. Corticium giganteum, Fr. Epier. 
p.959; Berk. Outl. p. 272; Fr. Elench. p. 218 ; Kicke, p. 204; 
Karst. Myc. Fenn. p. 311; Stev. Brit. Fung. p. 274; Cooke, 
Handb. n. 922; Winter, Krypt. Fl. p. 337.—Exs.: Thum. Myc. 
Univ. 909; Moug. & Nest. Stirp. Crypt. 778; Desm. Cr. Fr. 
Ser. i. 417; Sydow, Myc. March. 501; Roumeg. Fung. Sel. Gal. 
205; Rav. Fung. Amer. 452; Karst. Fung. Fenn. 250; Ellis, N. 
Amer. Fung. 410. (Specimen from Fries in Herb. Berk. 3995.) 
Broadly effused, when dry thin and cartilaginous, margin at- 
tached or slightly free, and then strigose ; hymenium often tinted 
pale brown or vinous, generally continuous when growing on a 
smooth surface, sometimes cracked, very rugged when growing 
over moss or pine-leaves. Cystidia falling away in old specimens. 
On firwood, bark, and leaves. Europe; United States; 
Ceylon. 
PENIOPHORA SUBGIGANTEA, Massee. Effusa, rigida, cremicolor, 
marginem versus subfusca; hymenio e velutino glabro.— Rav. 
no. 1699.—Corticium subgiganteum, Berk. in Grev. ii. p. 8. 
