152 MR. GEORGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOREE. 
PENIOPHORA GIGASPORA, Massee, n. sp.  Latissime effusa, 
ambitu fimbriata albicans; hymenio pallido, velutino, sicco 
indurato, contiguo ; cystidia fusoidea, 80-120 x 30-40 a ; spore 
oblongo-ellipsoidex, 18-20 x 10 p. 
N. Providence, Bahamas. 
On decorticated wood, forming thin, continuous, broadly 
effused patches, somewhat resembling P. velutina, but differing in 
cystidia and spores. 
PENIOPHORA SCOTICA, Massee, n. sp. Late effusa, margine 
fibrilloso-radiata ; hymenio cinnamomeo, velutino ; eystidia sub- 
cylindrica, 80-120 x 15-20 u; spore ellipsoidew, 8-10 x 6-7 p. 
(Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. 3995 a.) 
Broadly effused over the inside of bark. Scotland. 
Closely related to P. velutina, from which it differs in colour, 
size of cystidia, and absence of thread-like radiating mycelium. 
The plant is often barren and then loosely fibrillose, but the 
hymenium, when perfect, is almost waxy and hoary with the 
numerous cystidia. 
PENIOPHORA VIOLACEO-LIVIDA, Massee. Effusa, adnata, indu- 
rata ; hymenio albo-pruinoso ; basidia clavata, 4-sterigmatica ; 
cystidia fusoidea ; spore cylindraceo-ellipsoides, curvule, circa 
5 x3 „.—Üorticium violaceo-lividum, Fr., Patouillard, Tubule 
Analytice Fungorum, fasc. i. p. 16, fig. 24. 
On dead stem of Clematis Vitalba. Lower Pyrenees. 
Certainly not Corticium violaceum-lividum, Fr., but a true 
Peniophora. 
PENIOPHORA VELUTINA, Cooke. Late effusa, adnata, carnea, 
ambitu fibris rectis, divergentibus, concoloribus strigosa; hy- 
menio levi, setulis densis velutino; cystidia cylindraceo-fusoidea, 
60-80 x 10-15 u ; spore ellipsoidex, deorsum apiculate, 10 x 5 p. 
— Cooke, Grev. viii. p. 21, pl. 125. f. 15. Corticium velutinum, 
Fr. Epicr. p. 561; Hym. Eur. p. 650; Berk. Outi. p. 273; 
Wint. Krypt. Fl. p. 336; Cooke, Handb. no. 927; Stev. Brit. 
Fung. ii. p. 275. Thelephora velutina, DO. Fl. Fr. vi. p.33; Fr. 
Elench. p. 203. (Specimen in Herb. Berk.) l 
On wood and bark. When well-developed, of a pale cream- 
colour tinged with pink, often pallid. The branching thread- 
like mycelium often spreads for several inches from the margin 
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