278 FETCH : 



84. — Hydnum scariosum B. & Br. 



Ilydnvm scariosum B. & Br. in herb., Cooke (?), Grevillea, 

 XX.\ p. 2. 



Examination of the type specimen at Kew shows that this 

 is identical \nth Heterochcete ienuicula (Lev.) Pat. This is a 

 c'onnnon species in Ceylon, but it was not included in Berkeley 

 and Broome's list. It was hard to understand how Thwaites 

 managed not to collect it, but the difficulty has imw been 

 removed. 



85. — Corticium salmonicolor B. & Br. 



Corlicium salmonicolor B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, XIV. 

 p.71. 



Corticium javanicum Zimni., Centralb. f. Bakt., VII., p. 103. 

 non Sacc. ct Syd., Sylloge Fungorum, XVI., p. 189. 



Corlicium Zimmermanni Sacc. et Syd., Sylloge Fungorum, 

 XVI.. p. 1117. 



K.xamination of the type specimen at Kew has shown that 

 C. salmonicolor is identical with the well-known parasitic 

 species, hitherto i-ccorded in the East as Corticium javanicum 

 Zimm. Massee's re-description of Corticium salmonicolor in 

 Mun. Thelcphoreaj (Jour. Linn. Soc, XXVII., p. 122) does not 

 refer to tlie type. 



86. — Cyphella versicolor B. & Br. 

 (hiphilla virsirolor P>. & lir.. .loin-. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 73. 



(■ypliilla pruinosa B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 74. 



(ilrcgarious. in patches covering several square centimetres 

 Bonictinics on n (hin, dark brown or tawny, tomentose stroma 

 with a whilisii edge, sinnetimes on the substratum without 

 any Htronia ; uHpecially without a stroma when growing in 

 lines through cracks in the bark. 



Cup-hhapcd, margin at first incurved, up to 1 mm. diameter 

 and <>-7r) mm. high, narrowed below into a short stem-Hke 

 ba«e, ()-2.'5 nini. diameter, membranous, disc pale brown, 

 externally tawny at first, llicn white ; clothed externally with 

 short, iiTcgular. brown or hyaline hairs, 25-GU ja long, 4-8 (j. 

 diameter, which are roughened with lime deposits especially 



