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evaporated. Spirit of wine extracts the colour from the 
plant, and soils the paper on which the latter is fastened, as 
I have ascertained by experience.—H. * 
— ETAB. LXXXIV. LXXXV.] 
ON TWO ALLIED SPECIES OF THELEPHORA, 
i FROM SOUTH AMERICA. "m 
Tue Exotic Fungi have seldom engaged the attention of 
Botanical collectors: comparatively few are found in our 
Herbaria, and those few are by no means well described, if 
they are described at all, I am perhaps myself chargeable 
with having given too short descriptions of the Fungi of M. 
de Humboldt's collection, published in Kunth's Synopsis 
Plantarum ZEquinoct., and subsequently i in Humboldt’s and 
Kunth’s Nova Genera Pl. ZEq.; in consequence of which, 
Professor Kunze, the well-known Mycologist of Leipzig, bas 
applied the name of Thelephora badia, mihi, to a very different 
species, which he has communicated to my friend M. 
Klotzsch, and which now lies before me. I shall describe and 
figure the two: for although the former is represented by Mr. 
Kunth in the concluding velie of the Nova Genera Pl. Æq. 
there are but few persons who have the opportunity of con- 
sulting so rare and costly a work. 
THELEPHORA. Ehrh. 
Hymenium cum pileo homogeneum et concretum, papillis 
| subrotundis obtusis sparsis obsitum vel omnino eve, ut- 
dique ascigerum. Asci subimmersi, tenues, raro obsoleti. 
Stipes rarissimus. ^ Pileus coriaceus, persistens, rarius 
regularis, contextu floccoso-fibroso. Velum nullum. Fries 
- 
DIV. APUS. 
1. Thelephora badia ; pileo dimidiato sessili robusto coriace? - 
- badio tomentoso marginato, zonis minm "en pagina 
inferiori levi seing Klatzich, MSS Las 
LXXXIV.) : Te 
