26 Transactions. 



Peniophora velutina, Cooke, Grev., viii, p. 21, p]. 125, fig. 15 ; 

 Sacc, Sy]]. vi, no. 7701. 



Broadly efltused, rather fleshy, inseparable, margin running 

 out into long branching strands ; hymenium minutely velvety, 

 cream-colour, often slightly tinged with pink or bufi ; cystidia 

 cylindrical or attenuated upwards, 60-80 x 10-15 fx ; spores 

 elliptical with a minute apiculus, 10 x 5 /x. 



On wood and bark. New Zealand. Europe, United States. 



Often forming patches 5-10 cm. long. When perfectly de- 

 veloped the hymenium bristles with projecting cystidia when 

 seen under a lens ; these are more cylindrical and less incrusted 

 with lime than usual. In some specimens the hymenium is 

 very much cracked, in others quite continuous. The marginal 

 radiating strands of mycelium often extend for many inches 

 a,nd connect several distinct fertile patches. 



Peniophora ochracea, Mass., Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xxv, p. 150. 

 Syn., Corticium ochraceum. Fries, Epicr., p. 563 ; Sacc, 

 Syll. vi, no. 7600. 



Broadly efiused, inseparable, magin radiato-byssoid, soon 

 ■disappearing ; hymenium ochraceous, sparkling with very minute 

 crystals of oxalate of lime when fresh, cracked when dry ; 

 cystidia fusoid, 40-60 x 18-22 /x, ; spores elliptical, hyaline, 

 10 X 5 /x. 



On dead bark and Avood. New Zealand. Europe, United 

 States. 



Closely resembling in habit and general appearance, colour, 

 a,nd in the presence of sparkling atoms on the hymenium 

 Coniopkora olivacea, but distinguished by the cystidia and 

 smaller colourless spores. 



Peniophora papyrina, Cooke, Grev., viii, p. 20, pi. 124, fig. 9 ; 

 Austr. Fung., p. 191, fig. 82 ; Sacc, Syll. \i, no. 7688. Syn., 

 Stereum papyrinum, Mont., Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 612. 



Very broadly effused, margin usually reflexed, very thin, 

 coriaceous, strigose, grey, concentrically grooved, margin acute, 

 tawny ; hymenium umber, becoming purplish, minutely vel- 

 vety ; setse fusoid, 80-90 x 12-14 /a ; spores subglobose, 6 /x 

 diameter. 



On bark and wood. Northern Island, New Zealand. Cuba. 



Forming broadly effused, verv^ thin patches, which follow the 

 irregularities of the bark. 



