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evaporated. Spirit of wine extracts the colour from the 

 plant, and soils the paper on which the latter is fastened, as 

 I have ascertained by experience. — H. 



[TAB. LXXXIV. LXXXV.] 

 ON TWO ALLIED SPECIES OF THELEPHORA, 

 FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 



The Exotic Fungi have seldom engaged the attention of 

 Botanical collectors : comparatively few are found in our 

 Herbaria, and those few are by no means well described, if 

 they are described at all. I am perhaps myself chargeable 

 with having given too short descriptions of the Fungi of M. 

 de Humboldt's collection, published in Kunth's Synopsis 

 Plantarwn JEquinoct, and subsequently in Humboldt's and 

 Kunth's Nova Genera PI. yjEq. ; in consequence of which, 

 Professor Kunze, the well-known Mycologist of Leipzig, has 

 applied the name of Thelephora badia, tnihi, to a very different 

 species, which he has communicated to my friend M. 

 Klotzsch, and which now lies before me. I shall describe and 

 figure the two : for although the former is represented by Mr. 

 Kunth in the concluding volume of the Nova Genera PL JEq. 

 there are but few persons who have the opportunity of con- 

 sulting so rare and costly a work. 



THELEPHORA. Ehrh. 

 Hymenium cum pileo homogeneum et concretum, papillis 

 subrotundis obtusis sparsis obsitum vel omnino la,'ve, un- 

 dique ascigerum. Asci subimmersi, tenues, raro obsoleti. 

 Stipes rarissimus. Pileus coriaceus, persistens, rarius 

 regularis, contextu floccoso-fibroso. Fe/ww nullum. Fries. 



^ DIV. APUS. 



\. Thelephora badia ; pileo dimidiato sessili robusto coriaceo 

 badio tomentoso marginato, zonis glabris nigris, pagina 

 inferiori laevi carneo-glauco. Klotzsch, MSS. (Tab. 

 LXXXIV.) 



