125 - | DECADES OF FUNGI. 
Has. Caripi, Spruce; Vera Cruz, Galeotti; Xalapa, Mr. Harries. 
Pileus 14 inch broad, 1 inch long, subflabelliform, umbonato-sessile, 
mostly convex above, slightly undulated, thin but rigid, fawn-coloured, 
clothed with velvety down; repeatedly zoned; zones mostly very 
close and narrow, frequently forming bay-brown fasciæ, smooth and 
shining, alternating with paler. Hymenium tan-coloured, with a cine- 
reous tinge. 
Undoubtedly nearly allied to Stereum lobatum, Kze., but a much 
smaller and neater species, remarkable for its closely-zoned pileus. 
Galeotti’s specimens, it should be observed, are far less beautiful 
than those of Mr. Harries and Mr. Spruce. : 
* Hypolyssus Montagnei, Berk. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. vol. i. p. 139. 
tab. 6, fig. 1. 
Has. On twigs. Caripi. 
* Dictyonema membranaceum, Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 85. 
Has. Caripi. 
* Hypochnus nigrocinctus, Ehrenb. Hor. Phys. Ber. p. 85. 
Has. Caripi. 
* H. albo-cinctus, Montagne, Ann. des Sc. Nat. 2 Ser. vol. viii. p. 361. 
Has. Caripi. | 
This is not precisely the plant of Dr. Montagne, having the border 
rather more byssoid. Another form oceurs in the same collection more 
nearly approaching his plant, but thinner.. All the three are probably 
the barren thallus of some lichen. 
* Peziza cinerea, Batsch. 
Has. Tanaü. | 
Agreeing precisely in fructification, as in outward form and colour, 
with European specimens. : 
304. P. herpotricha, n. s.; capsulis convexis pallido-rufis demum 
obscurioribus glabris immarginatis, fibris ramosis repentibus insiden- 
. tibus. (Tas. I. fig. 2.) 
Has. On living leaves, mostly on the upper surface. Caripi. 
. Forming orbicular patches on the leaves, resembling those of an 4s- 
teroma. Cups convex, immarginate, pale red-brown, seated either 
singly or many together on branched, rugged, dark-brown, radiating 
fibres, which give out numerous ovate processes from their sides, and 
separate easily from the surface of the leaf. The main threads are con- 
nected by numerous fine branched hyaline filaments. Asci short, 
