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ASTEROSTROMA CORTICOLA, Massee, n. sp. Late effusum; 
subiculo crasso, cinnamomeo ; hymenio cervino demum isabellino ; 
spore ellipsoidee, 8x 3-4 m. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. 
n. 4042 a.) 
On pine-bark. Carolina. 
Subieulum thick, spongy ; margin sometimes radiato-fibrillose ; 
hymenium at first fawn-colour, becoming dirty ochraceous. Stel- 
late hyphe bright brown; rays 30-60 long, sometimes much 
longer, often with short irregular branches. 
ASTEROSTROMA CERVICOLOR, Massee. Effusum, adglutinatum ; 
subieulo delicato byssoideo hymenioque cervinis; spore ellip- 
soidez, 6 x 4 u.— Cortieium cervicolor, Berk. § Curt. in Grev. 
i p. 179.— Exs.: Rav. Fung. Amer. n. 228. (Type in Herb. 
Berk. n. 4058.) 
Subieulum very delicate, byssoid; spreading over the wood, 
but scarcely forming a distinet margin; hymenium of the same 
colour, scarcely pulverulent. (M. J. Berkeley.) 
Hymenium sometimes with a slight tinge of lilac. Superficially 
resembling some forms of Peniophora incarnata. Stellate bodies 
variable in size. 
ASTEROSTROMA MUSCICOLUM, Massee. Latissime effusum; subi- 
culo gilvo tenui subtiliter byssoideo ; hymenio concolore, mar- 
gine angusto demum evanido albo; spore subgloboss, 4 X 3 p.— 
Hymenochete muscicola, Berk. § Curt. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 
p.334. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew. n. 3713.) 
On dead branches of trees covered with moss. Cuba. 
Allied to A. cervicolor, but readily distinguished by the spores 
and the very pale brown stellate hyphz, the primary rays fre- 
quently producing more or less perfectly developed secondary 
whorls. 
ASTEROSTROMA ALBIDO-CARNEUM, Massee. Late effusum, ari- 
dum, margine determinatum ; hymenio pallido vel cinnamomeo, 
subtiliter fibrilloso ; spore oblongo-ellipsoidez, 8 x 4 u.— Thele- 
phora albido-carnea, Schwein. Corticium albido-carneum, Rav. 
(in Rav. Fung. Carol. Exs. n. 4). (Pl. XLVI. ff. 8, 9.) 
On decayed trunks. Carolina. l 
Spongy, dry, elastic; stellate hyphæ often variously branched ; 
hymenium varying in colour from almost white through pale 
ochraceous to pale cinnamon. 
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