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New Zealand. Australia, Tasmania, Madagascar, South America, 

 Cuba, Mexico, United States. 



Distinguished from H. polytricha in having the pileus and 

 hymenium wrinkled and veined. Auricularia mesenterica differs 

 in the shaggy zoned pileus. Edible. 



Hirneola hispidula, Berk., Exot. Fung., p. 396 ; Austr. Fung., 

 p. 206 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 8323. 



Campanulate, then expanded, sessile, oblique, thin and 

 flexible when moist, rigid when dry, 8-12 cm. across ; hymenium 

 dark-brown, even, or more or less veined ; externally covered 

 with a dense velvety pile, yellowish-brown or with an olive tinge, 

 even or slightly veined ; spores sausage-shaped and slightly bent, 

 hyaline, continuous, smooth, 19-24 x 7-8 /x. 



On dead wood. New Zealand. Australia, Mauritius, Ceylon, 

 South America, Java, Hong Kong. 



A large and fine species, somewhat variable in form and 

 colour, sometimes narrowed at the point of attachment into a 

 stem-like base. Hymenium sometimes with a purple tinge. 

 Often growing in clusters of 2-6. Known more especially by 

 the hairy pileus being almost hirsute, and the hairs longer than 

 in other species. 



69. Septobasidium, Pat. 



Effused and resupinate, coriaceous, not moist or gelatinous ; 

 hymenium separating from the lower stratum ; basidia 

 transversely septate, curved, sterigmata borne on the convex 

 side of the basidium ; spores hyiriine, continuous. 



Septobasidium, Patouillard, Journ. de Bot., 1892, p. 63. 

 Superficially resembling Thelephora, but readily distinguished 

 by the transversely septate basidia. 



Septobasidium pedicellatum, Pat., Journ. de Bot., 1892, p. 63 : Sacc, 



Syll. xi, no. 743. Syn., Thelephora pedicellata, Schweinitz, 



Syn. Carol., no. 108 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7188; Cooke, Austr. 



Fung., p. 180 ; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 611. 



Resupinate ; rather soft and elastic, densely fibrous, thick, 



basal layer composed of fascicles of hyphse, tawny-cinnamon, 



margin whitish, radiating ; hymenium paler, forming a thin 



separable pellicle which is often cracked irregularly ; basidia 



curved, transversely septate, springing from a broadly pyriform 



basal cell ; spores oblong, hyaline. 



On branches of living and dead trees of various species. New 

 Zealand. United States, Cuba, Brazil, Ceylon, India, Victoria, 

 Queensland, Western Australia. 



