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or almost entirely free and fixed by a broad effused base, flaccid, 

 silky, ding}' - ochraceous, 8-15 cm. broad ; hymenium even, 

 glabrous, pale - ochraceous, cracked when dry ; spores broadly 

 elliptical, 8 x 6-7 //.. 



On dead wood and bark. Middle Island, New Zealand. 

 Queensland, Tasmania, India, Europe, North America, Cuba, 

 Venezuela. 



Ochraceous, villose or strigose, often becoming bald when 

 old ; sometimes broadly effused and entirel}- adnate, in others 

 the margin only free and upturned, in others again quite free 

 and fixed by a narrow base. It is not unusual to meet with 

 all transitions from entirely adnate to the flabelliform condition 

 on the same trunk. Hymenium pale-ochre, smooth, cracked, 

 especially when dry ; the latter character separates it from 

 Stereum hirsutum, and also from Corticium, which the adnate 

 form resembles superficially. 



Stereum latissimum, Berk., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 183 : Hdbk. N.Z. 

 Flora, p. 613 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7419. 



Forming broad, very thin, chalk- white patches, minutely 

 subtomentose, margin abrupt. 



On bark. Northern Island, New Zealand. 



Forming patches many inches in length and breadth, very 

 thin, following all the inequalities of the matrix, chalk-white ; 

 under the lens very- minutely subtomentose ; margin abrupt, 

 by no means byssoid. 



An imperfectly described species of which uo type specimen 

 is known to exist. 



56. Lachnocladium, Lev. 



Stipitate, much branched, branches narrow, one side tomentose 

 and sterile, the other covered with the smooth hymenium ; 

 spores colourless. 



Lachnocladium, Lev., in Orb. Diet., viii, p. 487. 



Closely allied to Stereum, differing mainly in the much-divided 

 pileus. Superficially resembling some species of much-branched 

 Clavaria : differing in the tougher texture and in the hymenium 

 being confined to one side of the branches. 



Lachnocladium flagellifortne, Cooke, Austr. Fung., p. 179, fig. 79. 



Syn., Clavaria flagdliformis, Berk., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 186 ; 



Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 614 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 8018. 



Very much branched, divided to the base or nearly so, 

 branches tufted, cylindrical, fastigiate, forked, tips acute and 



