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sometimes almost saucer-shaped and attached by a central point 

 when 3'oung. Agrees with Stereum sanguinolentum in becoming 

 red when bruised, but distinguished by the thicker rigid sub- 

 stance and in the larger straight spores. The hymenium is 

 sometimes pale-yellow, at others greyish or livid 



Stereum vellereum. Berk., in Hook. Fl. N.Z., p. 183 ; Hdbk, 



N.Z. Flora, p. 612 ; Cooke, Austr. Fung., p. 184 ; Sacc, 



Syll. vi, no. 7367. 



Resupinate with the margin free, or fan-shaped, attached 

 by a narrow base, and imbricated, thin, 2-5 cm. across, greyish, 

 velvety, margin zoned and often lobed ; hymenium ochraceous, 

 even, glabrous ; spores subglobose, 4—5 /j. diameter. 



On branches and twigs. Northern and Middle Islands, New 

 Zealand. Victoria, Singapore, north-west Himalaya. 



Usually growing on small branches, and then resembling 

 Hymenochcete tabacina in habit, -mth broad, free, more or less 

 lobed wings ; substance thin ; when growing on thick branches 

 or logs, often imbricated and narrowed at the base. Eesembling 

 Stereum hirsutum in colour and habit, but thinner and \nth 

 different spores. 



Stereum hirsutum. Fries, Epicr., p. 549 ; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 



p. 612 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7288 ; Austr. Fung., p. 185. 



Entirely resupinate, or more frequently with a free margin 

 which is often more or less lobed or wavy ; pileus coarsely 

 strigose, 3-8 cm. broad, ding}'-ochraceous, becoming pale and 

 greyish, indistinctly zoned, thin and coriaceous ; hymenium 

 even, glabrous, naked, ochraceous or tan-colour ; spores ellip- 

 tical, 6 /u long. 



On trunks and branches. Northern and Middle Islands, 

 New Zealand. Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland, New South 

 Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Java, India, North 

 and South America. 



Very variable in form. When growing on a broad surface 

 often wholly resupinate or with a very narrow free margin. 

 On smaller branches there is often a broad, free, reflexed portion, 

 or several such overlapping. Pileus coarsely velvety or stri- 

 gose ; hymenium usually bright ochraceoxis, often with varying 

 shades of pink or grey. 



Stereum ochroleucum. Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 639 ; Sacc, Syll. 

 vi, no. 7283 ; Austr. Fung., p. 186. Syn., Corticimn ochro- 

 leucum. Fries, Epicr., p. 557 ; Berk., Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 

 p. 613. 

 Coriaceous, thickish, separable from the matrix, sometimes 



entirely resupinate, at others more or less free round the margin. 



