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margin jagged ; pores rather large, at length torn, cinnamon ; 

 stem cinnamon, slender, subtuberous, velvety. Pileus 4 — 8 

 lines broad, deeply umbilicate, subcyathiform, shining, some- 

 times confluent. Pores irregular, angular, torn, very shallow 

 towards the margin i dissepiments very thin. Stem ^ — 1 inch 

 high. 



Amongst moss. North America. Dr. Richardson. Allied 

 to PoL perennis, but very distinct. 



7. P. [Mesopus) perennis, Fr. var» canadensis, Kl. in Hook. 

 Herb. Deeply infundibuliform, zoneless. 



8. P. (Mesopus) umbraculuniy Fr. Mauritius. Mr. Telfair. 



9. P. (Mesopus) xanthopus, Fr. BoL Katui, Ehr. Hor. 

 Phys. Ber. t. 19. f. 12. Hook, in Kunth. Syn. vol. i. p. 9. 



East Indies, Dr. Wight. Near Acapulco, Humboldt. 



10. P. (Pleuropus) spathulatus, Hook, in Kunth. Syn. vol. i. 

 p. 9. sub Boleto ; small, tawny. Pileus convex, broadly ob- 

 ovate, coriaceous, rather hard, minutely velvety ; pores minute, 

 punctiform, subangular ; dissepiments extremely thin, their 

 borders minutely downy ; stem lateral, velvety, rather stout, 

 elongated. Pileus about 3 lines broad, sometimes very obso- 

 letely zoned, in one specimen lobed from the confluence of two 

 individuals. Stem J — | of an inch high, ^ thick, clothed with 

 a dense spongy down. 



Near Loxa in Peru. Humboldt. Resembling in colour 

 and substance PoL perennis, 



11. PoL (Pleuropus) coffeatus, Berk. Caespitose. Pileus 

 hard, corky, suborbicular, oblique, even, dingy red-brown ; 

 margin paler, tawny; substance wood-coloured; pores mi- 

 nute, punctiform, dirty white ; stem elongated, nearly even, 

 dingy brown frosted with coffee-coloured bloom. Pileus |- of 

 an inch broad, not lacquered, at least in the specimens before 

 me. Stem 2^ inches high, | of an inch thick, lateral. Hy- 

 menium decurrent. 



On rotten trees, rare. St. Vincent's. Rev. L. Guilding. 

 The specimen before me consists of a group of three, of 

 which the larger pileus is unfortunately broken off. 



12. P. (Pleuropus) lucidus, Fr. Mauritius. Mr. Telfair. 

 Confluent, umbilicate, concentrically undulato-rugose, with 

 the stem central, resembling in habit Polyp, rugosus, Nees, but 



