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from the hymenium, but have the fascicles composed of hyaline 

 hyphae. 



Veluticeps Berkeleyi Cooke, G 

 ouillard, Myc. Soc. Fr. Bui. 10: 7 



8: 149. 

 ,/. 1. 



Pat 



1894 



Hymenochaete veluticeps Berk. <fe Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour 



333. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung, t 



Massee, Linn 



Soc. Bot. Jour. 27 



1890. 



Illustrations: Myc. Soc. Fr 



Type 



Kew Herb, and in Cunis Herb 



/ 



dimidiate, coriaceous, hard and brittle, on the 

 side brown, sulcate-zonate, velutinous, becoming glabrous; 



hymenium pallid cinnamon 



,\ 



1 



Diane thickly studded with pro- 

 truding fascicles of very dark 



in structure 1-2 mm. 



>ut of 



Fig. 4. V. Berkeleyi. Section of 

 fructification at left, showing hyphal 



hyphae; 



thick, composed through 

 colored hyphae arranged in three 

 layers, a broad intermediate layer 

 of longitudinally arranged hyphae 

 which turn upward on the upper 

 side t ) form the velutinous surface 

 layer and turn downward on the 

 opposite side and terminate in 



fascicles, x 19; at right, a single the hymenium; bister-c olored 



fascicle, X 90. 



hyph 



il fascicles 40-60 n in diam- 



•^00 m or more long, extend 



through the under layer of tawny olive subhymenial hyphae and 



protrude 



On logs in 

 Cuba. 



beyond the basidia; spores not found 



ds. oft 



on the under 



de 



May, July 



may be recognized 

 :e examination show 



Hydnum 



the hymenial side to be really hyphal fascicles not covered by 



hymenium 



be ovoid and hyaline by 



Patouillard. Six collections of this species by C. Wright 

 reported by Berkeley & Curtis in Fungi Cubenses, from whi< 

 would seem that the species is common, but I have been ab] 



more recent collections from 



It is possible 





