MR. GEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHORE X. 145 
Superficially resembling P. aschista, differing in the thicker 
substance and smaller cystidia and spores. 
PENIOPHORA Scuwernrrzi, Massee. Pileata et resupinato- 
effusa, coriacea; pileis dimidiatis, confluentibus, strigoso-zonatis, 
unieoloribus, einereo-albidis, uncialibus, limbo tenuiore minus 
strigoso ; hymenio setuloso, e cinereo subfuliginoso-purpuras- 
cente, siccitate presertim, ubi resupinatum effusum est, rimoso ; 
eystidia conico-acuminata, asperula, 70x 150 x 14-20 u ; spore 
ellipsoide®, 7-8 x 4-5 u.— Thelephora cinerascens, Schwein. Syn. 
N. Amer. Fung. n. 651. Hymenochete cinerascens, Lév. Ann. 
Sci. Nat. sér. 3, v. p. 152. (Specimen from Schweinitz in Herb. 
Berk. Kew. n. 3810.) 
On wood. United States. 
Brodly effused. Very rigid when dry, thickish margin free 
and more or less upturned, densely strigose ; hymenium coarsely 
and irregularly tuberculose, bristling with white cystidia; ashy, 
with slight tinge of purple when dry, much cracked, showing pale 
fibrous subiculum. 
PENIOPHORA CRUSTOSA, Cooke. Effusa, crassa, dura, perennis ; 
hymenuio irregulari-lobato, pallido, levi, velutino ; margine sub- 
elevato; cystidia obelavata, 50-60 x 10-15 u ; spore ellipsoidee, 
10 x 34 p.— Grev. viii. p. 56. (Type in Herb. Kew.) 
On bark. New Zealand (Waitaki). 
" Resembling in appearance Stereum annuum, Berk. & Broome, 
but with the characteristic bodies on the hymenium. 
PENIOPHORA vinosa, Massee. Late effusa, vinosa, ambitu 
pallidior ; hymenio rimoso, interstitiis sericeis ; cystidia fusoidea, 
60-80 x 15-20 u; spore ellipsoidez, 10 x 5 p.—Thelephora vinosa, 
Berk. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. p. 60(1845.) (Type in Herb. 
Berk. n. 4043.) Hymenochete (Veluticeps) vinosa, Cooke, Grev. 
viii. p. 149. 
On wood and bark. Australia. 
Commencing as isolated round patches, which become confluent 
and form irregularly lobed widely extending patehes. The hyme- 
nium varies from vinous to dark brown, the margin paler and 
brighter, sometimes radiato-fibrillose, and the extreme edge free. 
B. Margine adpresso, sepe indeterminato. 
PENIOPHORA LIMITATA, Cooke. Subrotunda, arcte adnata 
