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THELEPHORACE.E 



Stereu7?i 



minate fibrillose stratum, even, smooth, composed of basidia and 

 hymenial cells compactly arranged side by side and of uniform 

 height. Basidia 4-spored. Spores minute, roundish-ovate, white or 

 coloured. (Fig. 98.) 



Fig. 98. — A, B, c, Stereum hirsutum Pers., upper and lower surface and section, two-thirds 

 natural size, d, basidium and spores, X 660. e, f, 6". Pint Fr., upper surface and section, two- 

 thirds natural size. 



Coriaceous or woody, mostly perennial, somewhat zoned, entire, 

 definite in form, effuso-reflexed. Species 1806 — 1818 



a. Apodca. Pileus dimidiate, sessile or at first resupinate, then 



effusedly reflexed, marginate. 1806 — 1814 



b. Resupinafcz. Agglutinate, effused; marg. not free, or 



scarcely so. 1815—1818 



a. Apodce. 



1806. S. hirsutum Pers. (from the hairy pileus; hirsutus, hairy) 



a b c. Coriaceous, rigid. 



P. hispid-zoned, effused, reflexed, lobed and crisped, usually 



ivory-buff varying dull primrose, orange or brownish ; marg. 



subobtuse, white or whitish. Hyvi. even, smooth, obscurely 



zoned, juiceless, usually warm-biscuit. 



Imbricate. Stumps, oak, beech, birch, poplar, laburnum. Jan. -Dec. 4 in. 

 Said to cause " fly "-wood and "yellow- and white-piped" wood. Pileus 

 often green at the base from the growth of algae. A deep rose-coloured 

 stain is frequent on this plant caused by a parasitic mould, Hypomyces 

 rosellus. Var. subcostatum Mass. Hym. costate or rugose. Var. cristu- 

 latum Quel. P. strigose, grey. 



