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Forming dense orbicular patches 3 inches or more in diameter, closely 

 imbricated ; pilei thin but rather rigid, flabelliform, connate, deeply 

 lobed and plicate, furrowed with a few zones, of a rich chocolate-brown, 

 velvety ; hymenium marked with a few concentric ridges of the same 

 colour as the pileus, miuutely setulose. 



A very pretty species, allied to >S^. ruhiginomm^ but far more minutely 



setulose than its allies. 



* S. Mongeotii, Er. (sub Corticio) Moug. et Nest, n, 581. 



Hab. On wood. Tangma Valley, Eastern Nepal. November 29. 

 Siugalelah, Sikkim, 1848. 10,000 feet. (Dr. Hooker.) 



Precisely the plant of Mougeot and Nestler, but much larger. The 

 ferruginous substratum is very remarkable in this fungus, which ap- 

 proaches very near to such species as S. iahacinum. The hymenium is 

 distinctly spinuloso-setose as in that species, the bristles being of the 

 same colour as the hymenium. 



453. S, scytale^ n. s. ; rigido-coriaceum, ambienti-libei'um ; pileo lo- 

 bato zonato radiatim ruguloso subvelutino spadiceo; contextu concolori ; 

 hymenio ochraceo umbrinoque. 



Hab. On dead wood from Khasia Mountains (Hooker and Thom- 

 son) to the Western Himalayas (Capt. Strachey). 



Of a rigid coriaceous substance, but rather flexible; brittle when 

 dry, and easily splitting from the base to the margin, effused, with the 

 border reflected widely, 3 inches or more, zoned and grooved, marked 

 with little longitudinal wrinkles, especially in the larger and thicker in- 

 dividuals, deep brown inclining to red ; finely velvety or pubescent ; 

 substance brown, like the pileus ; hymenium ochraceous or tinged with 

 umber, sometimes finely wrinkled towards the edge. 



This species has many points in common with S. rugosum, but more 

 especially with 5^. suhpileatum. Though running over the matrix, and 

 at first adnate with it, the border becomes widely reflected and lobed. 

 Thick specimens approach the magnificent S. princeps, which has at 

 present not been found out of Java, 



Corticinm Iceve^ Fr. 

 Hab. On decayed wood. E. Nepal ; Nangki, 10,000 ft. (Dr. Hooker.) 

 A form of Corticium Iteve approaching C. incamatum, but with no 

 tendency to assume the brighter colours of that species. There is no 

 distinct byssoid margin, but merely a tomentose white mycelium. 

 * Ejcidia hlspuhda^ Berk. 



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