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On trunks, fallen timber, &c. Middle and Northern Islands. 

 New Zealand. Widely distributed, especially in tropical and 

 subtropical countries both in the Old and New World. 



A variable species both in size, colour, and amount of 

 rugosity of the pileus, but readily distinguished by the thin 

 rigid substance ; velvety zoned pileus, and smooth ochraceous 

 or greyish hymenium. 



Stereum lohatum, Fries, Epicr., p. 547 ; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 

 p. 612 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7311 ; Austr. Fung., p. 184. 

 Syn., Stereum ferlatum, Berk., in Hook. Journ. iv, 1842, 

 p. 153 ; Stereum sprucei. Berk., Joiirn. Linn. Soc, x, p. 331 : 

 Stereum luteo-hadium, Fr., Epicr., p. 547 ; Stereum hory- 

 anum, Fr., Epicr., p. 547 ; Stereum ostrea, Nees. Nov. Act. 

 Nat. Cur., xiii, p. 13, pi. 2. 



Pileus thin, rigid, umbonato-sessile, coriaceous, tomentose, 

 usually ochraceous and often zoned with bay, margin almost 

 glabrous, 10-40 cm. across ; hymenium smooth, even, pallid ; 

 spores subglobose, 5-6 fi. 



On dead wood. Northern and Middle Islands, New Zealand. 

 Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, New Guinea, 

 PhiUppines, India, Ceylon, Bourbon, Malay Peninsula, Java, 

 Malacca, Surinam, Seychelles, southern United States, Mexico, 

 Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, Madagascar, Peru, Mauritius 



A widely distributed and variable species, distinguished by 

 its large size, thin substance, and pale dull-yellow hymenium. 

 The margin is often variously lobed. 



Stereum cinereo-hadium, Klotzsch, Nov. Act., 19, tab. v, fig. 3 ; 

 Hook., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 182 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7337 



Pileus dimidiate, sessile, robust, coriaceous, tomentose, 

 margined, chestnut-brown, zones smooth, black ; hymenium 

 smooth, glaucous, flesh-coloured. 



On dead wood. Northern Island, New Zealand. South 

 America. 



An imperfectly known species. There is no specimen in the 

 Kew Herbarium from New Zealand or elsewhere 



*** Entirely r&supinate, or with the margin only more or less free. 



Stereum Uludens, Berk., in Hook. Journ., iv, p. 59 ; Sacc, Syll. 



vi, no. 7329 ; Austr. Fmig., p. 185 



EfEused on the matrix, the upper part free, horizontal, margin 

 usually crisped and wavy, substance very thin, coriaceous, rigid 

 when dry ; upper surface of pileus coarsely velvety, brown, 

 often with paler zones, radially plicate, 2-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. 



