292 The Rev. M. J. Berkeley on some Fungi 



received a specimen accompanied by a sketch, from the learned 

 author, vrho most hberally sent me half of the only specimen 

 he possessed. The habit is very different. There is a variety 

 of >S'^. lateritium from. St. Vincent's in Sir W. J. Hooker's col- 

 lection with a smooth stem. A third species, S. aurantiacum, 

 approaching very near to either, has been lately discovered in 

 Leicestershire by Churchill Babington, Esq. It is probable 

 that at some future time it may be thought right to separate 

 the three species from Sfilbum. The structure of the capitula 

 is distinctly filamentous, and the sporidia, in Mr. Babington's 

 plant at least, originate from the tips of the flocci. 



3. Thelephora lobata, Kz. Fr. in Linnaea, (No. 599.) 

 Rio Janeiro. May. 



4. Polyporus pinsitus, Fr. El. (No. 599.) 

 Rio Janeiro. May. 



5. Polyporus australis, Fr. (No. 600.) 

 Rio Janeiro. June. 



, 6. Polyporus versicolor, Fr. (No. 1345.) 



Falkland Islands on the underside of timber. Entirely 

 resupinate. 



7. Sporidesmium adscendens, n. s. Flocci bent at the base 

 and filiform, flexuous, above abruptly incrassated ; apex at- 

 tenuated, truncate. Forming elongated black patches on the 

 pileus of Polyporus versicolor. Allied to Sporidesmium hor- 

 miscioideSy but in that species the threads have no distinct 

 thickened portion above as in the present species. The arti- 

 culations contain a large globule. 



With the last. Falkland Islands. 



8. Dmdalea erubescens, n. s. Caespitose, confluent. Pileus 

 4^ inches broad, coriaceous, depressed in the centre with the 

 margin broadly deflexed, minutely velvety and silky, zoned, 

 fulvous-cinnamon, nearly even, with the exception of one or 

 two well-marked ridges ; margin irregular, slightly fringed. 

 Gills broad, unequal, distinct, rigid, much jagged, tinged with 

 pink towards the margin, running down to the very base of 

 the stem, on which they anastomose, and are clothed with a 

 beautiful velvety pile. Stem central, 2 inches high, ^ of an 

 inch thick, solid, dilated upwards into the pileus, velvety 

 marked with oblong reticulations from the decurrent gills. 



