150 
Our present species was gathered, along with many other 
new plants, by M. Bertero, in the Island of Juan Fernandez 
and by him kindly communicated to me. 
[TAB. LXXIX.] 
CYCLOMYCES FUSCA. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cyctomyces. Kunze. (Loxophyllum. Klotzsch, 
MSS.) Hymenium sinuoso-lamellatum, e lamellis trans- 
versis basin arcuatim ambiens, oculo armato scabrius- 
culum, margine plerumque nunc lamellas anastomosan- 
tes nunc poros elongatos referens, cum pilei substantia 
homogeneum et concretum (lamellas ut in Deedalea 
nunquam conjunctione membrana duplici.) Substanta 
coriacea, fibrosa.— Genus a Dedalea satis distinctum. 
Klotzsch, MSS. : 
Cyclomyces fusca. “ Kunze.” 
Loxophyllum velutinum. Klotzsch, MSS. 
Has. In Insula Mauritii. D. D. Telfair. Bojer. 
Pileus sessilis, imbricatus, basi effusus, coriaceo-tenuis, Ce! 
asino-fuscus, eleganter velutinus, zonis concoloribus, mar 
gine subpatente undulato, 2-23 uncias latus, unciam 
circiter longus, lamellis transversis densis interrupts 
castaneo-fuscis, lineam altis, aculeis setiformibus minutiss- 
. mis distantibus obtectis, subinde crenulato-incisis, Ma- 
gine in poros abeuntibus. Klotzsch, MSS. 
This extremely elegant Fungus has been communicated fo 
me by my liberal friends from the Mauritius. The name 
~- Cyclomyces fusca of Kunze has been given to me for its but 
1 know not in what work it is published by that appellation; 
_ nor whether, as I suspect, it is merely in the MSS. of that 
author. The colour is a rich and ferruginous brown, 
from the compactness of the lamelle, there is a beautiful play 
of light and shade, which gives to its under-surface a strikingly 
rich velvety appearance. The direction of these lamelle 1 
very le, and though transverse with regard me 
