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Thelephora vaga. Berk., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 182 ; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 



p. 611 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7181. 



Resupinate, variously incrusting, dry, dingy-brown; myce- 

 lium byssoid, creeping, loose ; spores vinous-brown, irregularly 

 globose, minutely warted, 6-8 /a. 



On wood, heaps of dead leaves, &c. Ashburton, New Zea- 

 land. 



" It grows under pine-trees, chiefly Pinus insignis. I have 

 observed it growing on bare soil, among beds of dead pine-leaves, 

 which become matted into a mass, and also at the roots of 

 Dactylis glomerata, growing under P. insignis.'' (W. W. Smith, 

 Ashburton, New Zealand.) 



51. Soppittiella, Mass. 

 Whitish at first, soft and subgelatinous, then becoming rigid, 

 incrusting, form ver}' variable ; hymenium collapsing when 

 dry and often tinged brown ; spores coloured, spinulose. 



Soppittiella, Mass., Brit. Fung. FL, i, p. 106. 



Distinguished by the soft substance when growing. Often 

 creeping up living tufts of grass or other plants in an irregularly 

 shaped fringed mass. 



Soppittiella fastidiosa, Mass., Brit. Fung. Fl., i, p. 107 (1892). 

 Thelephora fastidiosa, Berk., Outl, p. 268 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, 

 no. 7161. 



Whitish ; forming broadly effused, incrusting, amorphous, 

 or forming irregularly flattened branches ; hymenium irregu- 

 larly papillose, becoming rufescent with age or when bruised; 

 spores broadly elliptical, rough, almost colourless, 6-7 x 4-5 /x. 

 Smell of entire plant very foetid, especially when bruised. 



New Zealand. Europe. 



Wliite, becoming cream-colour, rmming as a thin soft film 

 over everything in its way, sometimes forming free flattened 

 branches. Silky or byssoid when young. 



52. Peniophora, Cooke. 



Resupinate, or with the extreme margin free and more or less 

 raised : hymenium with projecting colourless spines or 

 cystidia ; spores colourless. 



Peniophora, Cooke, Grev., \'ii., p. 20. 



Differs from HymenochcBte in the cystidia being colourless ; 

 the projecting portions of the cystidia are often incrusted with 

 particles of lime. Corticium differs in having no cystidia. 



