662 STEBEUM 



2246. S. pallidum (Pers.) Cooke. (= Thelephora pallida (Pers.) Fr.) 

 Pers. Icon, et Desc. i, t. 1, fig. 3, as Craterella pallida. 



Pallidum, pale. 



R. 1-5 cm., pallid, then cream, or buff, infundibuliform, strigosely 

 squamulose. St. 2-6 x -5-1 cm., concolorous, expanding upwards into 

 the p., often confluent, smooth, base villose. Hymenium pallid, 

 rugulose, with slight, very obtuse, radial folds, more or less setulose 

 with hyaline hairs under a lens. Flesh concolorous, coriaceous-spongy, 

 rather thick. Spores white, elliptical, often flattened on one side, 

 5-8 x 3-5/x. Cystidia hyaline, cylindrical, smooth, 6-8/z in diam., 

 projecting 10-50ju, above the hymenium. Often caespitose. Woods. 

 July Nov. Rare, (v.v.) 



2247. S. multizonatum (B. & Br.) Massee. (= Tkelephora multizonata 

 B. & Br.) B. & Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, xv, t. xm, fig. 4, as 

 Thelephora multizonata. Multus, many ; tyovr), a belt. 



R. 9-20 cm., bright rufous flesh colour, or rich brown, margin white at 

 first, deeply infundibuliform, variously cut and lobed, zoned with 

 darker bands; margin lobed, crenulate. St. 5-9 x 1-3 cm., concolorous, 

 gradually expanding into the p., often confluent, smooth. Hymenium 

 paler than the p., or somewhat cinereous, slightly ribbed, smooth. Flesh 

 concolorous, or paler, coriaceous, tough, thin. Spores white, broadly 

 elliptical, 7 x 4-5/>t, with a large central gutta. Caespitose. Woods. 

 Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2248. S. undulatum (Fr.) Massee 1 . (- Thelephora undulata Fr.) 



Undulatum, waved. 



R. 13 cm., whitish, then tan, depressed, plano-infundibuliform, 

 minutely fibrillose; margin entire, undulate. St. 1-3 x -5-1 cm., 

 whitish, equal, villose. Hymenium pale tan, ribbed, setulose under a 

 lens. Flesh concolorous, subcoriaceous, firm. Spores white, "broadly 

 pip-shaped, 10 x 6/t" Massee. On the ground. Oct. Rare. 



2249. S. tuberosum (Grev.) Massee. (= Thelephora tuberosa (Grev.) 

 Fr.) Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 178, as Merisma tuberosum Grev. 



Tuberosum, tuberous. 



R. 1-2 cm., grey, or with a slight brownish tinge, infundibuliform, 

 broken up into narrow, compressed segments almost to the base of the st., 

 segments acute, or obtuse at the apex. St. -5-2-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., 

 concolorous, subcylindrical, obscurely furrowed or lacunose, base 

 bulbous. Hymenium concolorous, inferior, smooth. Flesh subcoria- 

 ceous, thin. Spores white, "elliptical, 7-8 x 5ju," Massee. Bare soil. 

 Sept. Nov. Rare. 



1 "The record in England is an error of determination" sec. Lloyd, Synopsis 

 Stipitate Stereums, p. 20. 



