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wide ; hymenium even, smooth, rufous or brown ; spores 

 elliptical, 6-7 x 4 yu. 



On dead logs, branches, &c. New Zealand. Tasmania, 

 Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western and South 

 Australia, Venezuela. 



A characteristic Australasian species, distinguished by the 

 dark, hairy, waved pileus and dark-coloured hymenium. 



Stereum pannosum, Cooke, Grev., viii, p. 56. 



Pileus coriaceous, becoming rigid when dr}% effused, the 

 upper portion free and reflexed, 3-6 cm. across, sterile surface 

 dingy - grey, indistinctly zoned, hirsute ; hymenium glabrous, 

 dingy - grey, becoming primrose, cracked when dry ; spores 

 elliptical, 5-6 x 3-4 /x. 



On dead bark. New Zealand. At present only known from 

 New Zealand. 



Effused, free margin often torn or split. Distinguished by 

 the dingy-grey or dull-lead colouring of every part. Stereum 

 illudens differs in bro\\ai tinge of every part, and *S. luguhre 

 in the blackish papillose hymenium. 



Stereum luguhre, Cooke, Grev., xii, p. 85. 



Coriaceous, rigid ; pileus effused and reflexed, about 2"5 cm. 

 deep, tomentose, zoned, cinereous, becoming pallid, zones 

 darker ; margin rather acute, pallid ; hymenium somewhat 

 papillose, smooth, naked, black. 



On logs. New Zealand. 



A very distinct species by its black obtusely papillate 

 hymenium. Pileus about 1 in. deep, often densely imbricated 

 and extending laterally several inches. There is no specimen 

 of this species present in the Kew Herbarium, hence I am unable 

 to supplement Cooke's original diagnosis, reproduced above. 



Stereum rugosum, Fries, Epicr., p. 552 ; Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 183 ; 

 Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 612 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7336 ; Cooke, 

 Austr. Fung., p. 187. 



Broadly effused, sometimes shortly reflexed, coriaceous, 

 becoming thicldsh and rigid, sterile surface at length smooth, 

 brownish ; hymenium pale greyish-yellow, primrose, becoming 

 red when cut or bruised ; spores cylindrico-elliptical, straight, 

 11-12 X 4-5 fx. 



On bark and dead wood ; sometimes growing on living trees 

 and proving to be a very destructive parasite. Northern Island, 

 New Zealand. Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, 

 Europe, North and South America. 



Very variable in form, wholly adnate, partly reflexed, or 



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