670 HYMENOCHAETE. CLADODEBRIS 



drical, acute, 55-75 x 7-12/A. Dead wood and branches. Jan. Dec. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Spores coloured. 



2274. H. croceo-ferruginea Massee. Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27, t. v, 

 figs. 9, a, b, c. 



Croceus, saffron yellow ; ferruginea, iron rust colour. 



R. 58 cm., orange ferruginous to brownish, broadly effused, closely 

 adnate; margin byssoid or indeterminate. Hymenium concolorous, 

 very minutely setulose, cracked when dry. Flesh crustaceous, very 

 thin. Spores "olive, subglobose, 7 x 6 /A. Setae cylindrical, base very 

 much swollen, 70-100 x 30-35 /z" Massee. Dead stems of Rosa 

 canina. Rare. 



ft Setae subclavate, sometimes rough. 



2275. H. crassa (Lev.) Berk. Lev. Voy. Bonite, t. 139, fig. 1 B, as 

 Thelephora crassa Lev. Crassa, thick. 



R. 2-5-11 cm., pale rufous, resupinate, effused, minutely velvety; 

 margin thickened, at length free. Hymenium rufous, unequal, setu- 

 lose. Flesh coriaceous, soft, spongy. Spores white, "cylindric- 

 ellipsoid, 7-8 x 4^,. Setae subclavate, often rough at the apex, 70-130 x 

 7-14/i" Massee. Trunks. Rare. 

 H. abietina (Pers.) Massee = Stereum abietinum (Pers.) Fr. 



B. Hymenium stratose. 



2276. H. cinnamomea (Pers.) Bres. (= Corticium cinnamomeum 

 (Pers.) Fr.) Cinnamomea, cinnamon colour. 



R. 3-7 cm., cinnamon brown, or auburn, resupinate, widely effused, 

 adnate, velvety; margin paler, floccose. Hymenium cinnamon-brown, 

 drying antique brown to "Brussels-brown," setulose, stratose. Flesh con- 

 colorous, thick, loose, "stratose, ranging up to 6 strata, each com- 

 posed of a setigerous layer 30-45 fj, broad, and of a hyphal layer of 

 equal or greater breadth, with hyphae coloured like the fructifica- 

 tion, loosely interwoven, 3/x, in diam." Burt. Spores white, cylin- 

 dric-ellipsoid, curved, 5-6 x 2-2-5/u,. Setae mahogany colour, apex 

 paler, tapering upwards into an acute point, 70-100 x 5-6 /A. " Basidia 

 clavate, 10-12 x 3-5/t, with 4-sterigmata, intermingled with long, 

 cylindrical, blunt, paraphyses, brown below, more or less hyaline 

 above, 4/x in diam." Wakef . Bark, decaying wood and fallen branches 

 of frondose and coniferous trees. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Cladoderris Pers. 



(/e\o8o<?, a branch; Seppis, a leathern covering.) 

 Receptacle coriaceous, pileate, sessile, or produced behind into a 

 stem-like base. Hymenium inferior, with fan-like folds, or radiating, 

 woody, branched ribs, or veins. Spores white, elliptic oblong, smooth. 

 Cystidia present. Growing on wood. 



