in the British Museum. 383 



The distinguishing character of this elegant species appears 

 to depend on the peculiar nature of the villous coat. Stereum 

 lobatum is also characterized by Fries as villous, but in one 

 of the forms, that published by Klotzsch in the ( Linnaea/ the 

 pubescence is thickly matted, none of the individual hairs 

 projecting beyond the main mass ; while in the other, though 

 the hairs are more distinct, there is nothing like the radiating 

 arrangement which is visible in Swartz's specimens. The habit 

 too is different. S. versicolor is a much smaller species. The 

 subject being really one of some difficulty, a figure from au- 

 thentic specimens cannot fail to be acceptable. 



Plate XI. fig. 13. a a, Stereum versicolor, nat. size ; b, portion magnified. 



41. Guepinia palmiceps, n.s. Stipite compresso subtiliter 

 velutino cum pileo palmato-lobato confluente ; hymenio sub- 

 plicato rufo. " Clav. muscoides, Fl. Zeyl." 



Ceylon. Herb. Mus. Brit., Konig. 



From \ to f of an inch high ; stem compressed, dark at the 

 base, fawn-coloured, clothed, as is the pileus, with very mi- 

 nute velvety down, divided into two or more branches, which 

 expand above into a somewhat spathulate pileus, with about 

 six nearly equal, sometimes emarginate lobes ; margin slightly 

 thickened, subreflexed. Hymenium very obscurely folded, 

 deep rufous. 



Plate XII. fig. 14. a a, & 15 b, left side, Guepinia palmiceps, nat. size. 



42. Guepinia fissa, n. s. Stipite compresso subtiliter velu- 

 tino ; pileo fisso, lobis demum linearibus ; hymenio luteo. 

 " Clavaria lutea, Malacca and Siam." 



Konig. Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Nearly of the same size as the foregoing ; pileus irregularly 

 split into more or less linear lobes, which are themselves 

 slightly lobed at the side. Hymenium ochraceous yellow. 



Very much resembling the last, but differing in the less 

 regular mode of division and in the paler hymenium. The 

 clothing of the pileus and of the stem is the same in both 

 species. 



Both the species have a strong resemblance to Guepinia 

 spathularia ; but after an inspection of abundant specimens of 

 the North American species, which has the hymenium very 

 much more strongly plicate, I am inclined to consider them 

 as distinct. 



Plate XII. fig. 15. b, the right hand figure, Guepinia fissa, nat. size. 



43. Clavaria compressa, n. s. Pallida, mycelio fibrilloso 

 niveo, stipite compresso, furcato ; ramis paucissimis tenuibus 

 cylindricis ; apicibus acutis. 



