in the British Museum. 381 



On wood. Jamaica, Swartz. Herb. Mas. Brit. 



Stemless, 1^ inch or more across, convex, attenuated be- 

 hind, semi-orbicular, rather thick, pale, with a few indistinct 

 zones, fleshy and brittle when fresh, when old tough and dark 

 like the prickles ; smooth, except towards the very slightly 

 undulated margin, where it is scabrous ; substance pale ; 

 prickles 2 — 3 lines long, crowded, simple, diaphanous, ferru- 

 ginous brown, cylindrical, slender, obtuse, or acute. 



In the dry state the pileus is nearly as dark as the prickles, 

 but the substance remains pale. 



Hydnum sericeum, Swtz. ! ( Thelephora sericea, Fl. Occ. 

 p. 1928) belongs to the genus Dichonema, or rather Dictyo- 

 nema, for the latter seems to be a more perfect state of the 

 former. 



Plate X. fig. 9. d, Hydnum discolor, nat. size ; e, section near the mar- 

 gin, magnified. 



36. Thelephora setosa, Swtz. Imbricata e basi effusa re- 

 flexa ferrugineo-fusca fibris ramosis vestita subzonata ; hy- 

 menio inaequabili granulato setuloso. Hydnum resupinatum, 

 Swartz ! Prodr. p. 149. Thelephora setosa, Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 p. 1929. 



Jamaica, Swartz. Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Pilei stemless, imbricated, 1 inch or more broad, J of an 

 inch long ; base effused, margin reflected, of a dull ferrugi- 

 nous brown, obscurely zoned, clothed with coarse branched 

 fibres somewhat after the manner of Pol. hydnoideus, % of an 

 inch long, which compose almost the whole substance of the 

 pileus. Hymenium granulated, of the same colour as the pi- 

 leus, with very minute scattered bristles. 



An extremely curious and well-marked species, being to 

 Thelephora what Corticium crinitum is to Corticium. 



Plate XI. fig. 10. Thelephora setosa, nat. size. 



37. Stereum pusillum, n. s. Cartilagineo-coriaceum, pileo 

 flabellari nitide umbrino-rufo azono sericeo-striato glabro ; 

 margine acutissimo tenui lobato ; stipite curto sublaterali 

 erecto, hymenio pallido laevi glabro. " Clavaria pezizceformis, 

 Fl. Zeyl.," Konig in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Ceylon, Konig. Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Stem £ of an inch high, lateral but vertical, giving off a fla- 

 belliform pileus not | an inch long and broad, slightly lobed, 

 laterally connate, rather rigid, smooth but sericeo-striate, of a 

 bright burnt umber, not zoned ; edge very thin, divided into 

 two or three obtuse lobes. Hymenium pale, smooth, quite 

 free from bristles. Allied to Stereum elegans. 



