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This species resembles in habit and appearance T. fhdidiosa. The 

 mode in which the tips of the branches are attached is very singular. 



* Cladoderris dendritica. P., Preyc. Voy. p. 176. Spruce, n. 81. 

 Hab. On decaying roots of Alpinia aromatica, February, 1853. 



Panure. 



602. Stereum Jiydrophorum, B. ; pileo infundibuliformi fusco umbrino 

 zonato processibus longis amplis planis acute laciniatis dense stipatis 

 concoloribus vestito ; stipite rigido tenui subtiliter velutino ; hyraenio 

 albido. Spruce, n. 80. (Tab. VI.) 



Hab. On the ground in high woods on the Eiver Uaupes. Pro- 

 bably attached to concealed branches ; also in woods near Rio Negro 



and Casiquiafe. August, 1853. 



Pileus 3-4 inches across, infundibuliform, chocolate-brown, coria- 

 ceous, repeatedly zoned, velvety, clothed, but more especially in the 

 centre, with a dense forest of flat, branched, acutely laciniated, velvety 

 processes, continuous with the paler substance ; edge lobed. Stem ^-1 

 inch high, attached by a disciform base, round, nearly even, of the 

 same colour as the pileus, obscurely velvety. Hymenium white or 



very pale umber, smooth. 



Nothing can be more curious than the dense mass of processes with 

 which the centre of the pileus is clothed, which, if torn from it, would 

 certainly be described as a new species of branched ThelepJiora. • In 

 age the border has but few processes, and in old specimens they appear 

 to be washed away, in which state the species was originally described 

 from specimens communicated by Sir K. Schomburgk. Ann. of Nat. 



Hist. vol. xiv. p. 327. 



* ;S'. eUgans, Fr. Ep. p. 545. Spruce, n. 174, 13.^ 

 Hab. On trunks of trees. March, 1853. Panure. 



* 8. damacorne, Fr. Ep. p. 546. Spruce, n. 24. 

 Hab. On decayed trunks. Panure. 



* 8. reniforme, Er. 1. c. Spruce, n. 25. 



Hab. On the ground. 



603. S. Jlssum, n. s. ; album ; pileo primura spathulato, demum fla- 

 bellato profunde fisso; stipitibus brevissirais e basi communi mem- 

 branaceo oriundis ; hymenio Isevi. Spruce, n. ^1. 



Hab. On dead twigs. Panure. 



White when recent, ochraceous when dry. Pilei about an inch long, 

 at first spathulate or petaliform, smooth and even or with a few ob- 



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