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Perennial. Yariable. At first resupinate, at length generally reflexed, 

 often imbricatedj more or less zoned, strigose, tough and leathery, bat not 

 rigid, buff, yellowish; or greyish, often acquiring a greenish tinge from the 

 presence of minute Algce. Hymenium smooth, even, buff, sometimes cinere- 

 ous; margin entire, more or less lobed. — M.J.B. (Fig. 81 J 



912. Stereum spadiceum. Fr. *' Bright-brown Stereum." 



Coriaceous; pilei effuso-reflexed, villous, sub-ferruginous; 

 margin rather obtuse, white, even beneath, smooth and brownish, 

 bleeding when bruised. — Fr. Epicr.p. 549. Fl. Dan. t. 1G19,/. 

 1. Bull. t. 483,/. 5. Sovj. t. 26. Ann. N.H. no. 50. Berk. exs. no. 

 144. Cooke, exs. no. 304. 



On sticks, especially ash. Common. [United States.] 



Easily known from every state of *Sfe/'e'-<r/i^;2'//7;'.ire?/r/i by its becoming blood- 

 stained when scratched. Spores copious, pure white, oblong-elliptic. — 

 M. J. B. 



913. Stereum sanguinolentum. Fr, " Bleeding Stereum.'' 



Coriaceous, thin: pileus effuso-reflexed, closely silky, some- 

 what striate, pallid ; margin acute, white; hymenium even, 

 smooth, brownish-cinereous, bleeding when wounded, when old 

 pruinose. — Fr.Epicr.p.D-i'd. Bail. t. 2^. Grev.t.'2'lh. Fl.Boruss. 

 t. 381. Thelephora sanguinolenta, Eng. Fl. Y.p. 167. 



On wood of firs. Common. [Low. and Mid. Carolina.] 



Densely gregarious, at firsb resupinate and circular, at length dimidiate, 

 or with the margin more or less reflexed all round, silky or almost strigose, 

 zoned, the zones darker ; hymenium rough, from the inequalities of the 

 matrix, otherwise smooth, pale greyish-brown, when scratched or bruised 

 becoming instantly blood-red. — JI.J.B. 



914. Stereum rugosum. Fr. ** Rugose Stereum." 



Corky, rigid ; pileus effused, and shortly reflexed, obtusely 

 marginate, atlength smooth, bright-brown ; hymenium unpolished, 

 pruinose, somewhat blood-stained when bruised. — Fr. Epicr. p. 

 552. T, Lauro-cerasi, Eng. Fl. var. Thelephora rugosa, Eng. FL 

 y.p. 166. Berk. exs. no. 145. 



On stumps, especially hazel. Common. 



[Mid. & Up. Carolina.] 



Assuming a blood-red colour when scratched. Sometimes surviving one or 

 more seasons, and then thick and zoned within. 



915. Stereum acerinum. Fr. " Maple Stereum." 

 Crustaceous, adnate, even, smooth, white. — Fr. Epicr. p. 553. 



