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61. P. (Placodermei) Persoonii, Fr. 

 On dead wood. 



* 



62. P. (Inodermei) pinsitus, Fr. 

 On dead wood. 



63. Stereum versicolor, Fr. 

 On dead wood. 



64. S. papyrinum, Mont. 

 On dead wood. 



65. S. Kunzei, B. — Thelephora Kunzei, Weig. Exs. ; Hook. Bot. Misc. 

 ii. p. 162, tab. 85. 



On decayed sticks. 



66. Cyphella perpusilla, JB. Congesta pallidissime mellea cyiin- 

 drico-subglobosa, ore minuto aperta. 



On the hymenium of Stereum Kunzei. 



Forming little thin patches. Spores extremely minute. 



I sec no trace of asci. This species is just intermediate between 

 Cyphella and Solenia. 



6/. Cora pavonia, Fr. 

 On exposed situations. 



68. IIirneola rufa, Fr.— Exidia rufa, B. Ann. Nat. Hist. x. p. 384, 



tab. 12. fig. 17. 

 On dead wood. 



69. Lycogala epidendron, P. 



On various decaying substances. 



70. Xylaria involuta, Kl. 



On dead wood. 



71. X. Schweinitzii, B. $ C. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. ii. 1853, 

 p. 284. 



On dead wood. 



72. Hypoxylon turbinatum, JB. Laccatum erumpens, demum 

 omnino liberatum ; receptaculo exacte turbinato deorsum attenuato, 

 apice convexo, centro supra perithecia oblonga membranaeea leviter 

 depresso. 



On dead wood. 



About ^ an inch across and nearly as much high ; exactly top-shaped ; 

 clothed with a thick hard laccate coat, at first coffee-coloured, then 

 pitch-black. Asci subelliptic with a slender pedicel ; paraphyses 

 rather thick : snoridia oblomr, bvaline. '00054 inch lone\ 



