130 rUNGUS-FLOEA. 



when fresh ; sometimes with a distinct round stem \ in. or 

 more in height, at otliers several plants grow close together, 

 having their stems more or less confluent at the base. It has 

 110 relationship with Cladoderris, as suggested by Fries in 

 Summa, Veg. Scand., p. 332. 



Stereum tuberosum. ]\[ass. 



AVhite, becoming pallid or reddish, pileus cut nearly or 

 quite down to the tuberous base into narrow irregular seg- 

 ments arranged in an infundibuliform manner ; stem when 

 distinct, slender ; hymenium almost even ; spores elliptical, 

 colourless, smooth, 7-8 x 5 /a. 



Thelephora tnherosa, Fr., Grev., Sc. Or. FL, t. 178; Berk., 

 Outl., p. 267 ; Cke., Hdbk., n. 802 ; Stev., B. Fung. ii. 262. 



On the ground. About 1 in. high. Pileus infundibuliform 

 but cut into narrow segments, removed from Thelephora on 

 account of the smooth hymenium and elliptical smooth, 

 colourless spores. Distinguished from S. Soicerhel by the 

 pileus being cut down nearly to the base into narrow 

 segments, and the tuberous base t(j the stem. 



Stereum undulatum. Mass. 



Pileus whitish becomii)g tan, depressed, minutely fibrillose, 

 margin undulated, stem short, villous ; hymenium minutely 

 velvety, pale tan ; spores broadly pip-shaped, 10 x 6 /x. 



Thelephora undulata, Fr., Hym. Eur., 663 ; Stev., B. Fung. 

 262. 



On the ground. From ^—1 in. high, pileus depressed or 

 funnel-shaped, stem short, remarkable for the minutely 

 velvety, buff hymenium. 



Stereum multizonatum. 15. k Br. 



Tough and caitilaginoiis when fresh, ])ileus deeply infun- 

 dibuliform, variously cut and lobod and jjassing into a short 

 stem, bright brownish flesh-colour, zoned with darker bands ; 

 hymenium smooth, paler than the pileus, rugulose, powdered 

 wdth the white spores ; numerous pilei are varioiisly grown 

 together, the stems are also confluent at the base, thus 

 forming dense tufts ; spores elliptical, colourless, 8-0 x 

 4— .5 fx. 



Stereum wuUizonatum, Berk, and Broome, Ann. Nat, Hist., 

 Ser. 3, XV. ji. 321, j.l. xiii. f. 4; Mass., Mon. Thel., p. 167. 



