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radiate, cord-like, branching sulphur-coloured strands. Hym. 

 minutely papilloso-rugose or granulose, bright sulphur-yellow, 

 or clouded and mottled sulphur and orange on an ivory ground, 

 fading to yellow-umber, sometimes rich sienna-orange with a 

 pale somewhat byssoid sulphur marg. Spores olive. 



Dead wood, bark, twigs, leaves, stipules, etc., pine, oak, beech, sometimes 

 on earth. Oct. -Jan. 5^ in. Var. ochroidea Mass. Hym. ochreous 

 with a cream or sulphur margin. Spores larger than type, probably 

 specifically distinct. 



1891. C. subdealbata Mass, (from the whitish colour ; sub, somewhat, 



dcalbatus, whitened) a b. 



Broadly effused, thin, determinate, cracking. Hym. shining- 

 white, thickly powdered, pallid fawn, or pale ochreous-whitish, 

 mottled brownish-ochre or shaded olive, often with paler 

 barren patches. Spores ochreous or pale dull yellow. 



Bark, pine. Dec. 4! in. 



1892. C. stabularis Karst. (from its being first recorded from an 



ox-stall ; stabulitm, a stall) a c. 



Effused, flaxy when young, fleshy-soft. Hym. tubercular, tubercles 

 collapsing, white, whitish-yellow, pale yellowish-brown or 

 vinous-fuscous, white-pruinose ; marg. definite flaxy or pul- 

 verulent, white. 



Odour fetid from its habitat. Squared wood, fir. 4^ in. 



1893. C. Berkeley! Mass, (after the Rev. M. J. Berkeley) a b c. 

 Effused, thick, cracked ; marg. determinate, sometimes minutely 



byssoid. Hym. vinous-brown, somewhat yellowish, somewhat 

 paler at the pallid marg. Spores tawny. 

 Bark, decorticated wood. 4 in. Superficially resembles 1850. 



1894. C. Cookei Mass, (after Dr. M. C. Cooke) a. 



Effused, fibrilloso-membranous. Hym. ferruginous-olive or yellow- 

 ish-brown, clouded darker ; marg. byssoid, pallid. Spores pale 

 dull yellow. 



Rotting wood. 4^ in. 



1895. C. oehraeea Mass, (from the ochreous colour) a b. 



Broadly effused, submembranous, indeterminate, cracking. 

 Hym. with a woolly appearance, subpapillose, sulphur-white to 

 ochre, salmon-white when dry, or pale vinous-brown with a 

 yellowish tinge ; marg. broad, pulverulent, pale yellowish. 

 Spores yellowish or pale dull yellow. 



Wood, bark, elm. July. 5 in. Resembles a thin form of 1890. Must 

 not be confounded with 1874 or the var. ochroidea of 1890. 



1896. C. membranaeea DC. (from the somewhat membranous 



substance) a. 



Somewhat orbicular or effused, fragile, cracking and peeling off 

 the host. Hym. dull ferruginous or opaque-yellowish, sienna- 

 umber ; mid. somewhat dark, constantly paler at the fibrillose 

 marg. Spores ochre. 



Forming patches a foot or more in diam. on walls, wood, paper, etc. 9! in. 



