* WITHOUT CYSTIDIA. GROWING IN THE GROUND. 



STEREUM ELEGANS (Fig. 539). Pileus glabrous, growing in 

 the ground, densely caespitose and confluent, imbricate, forming a 

 rosette, irregularly infundibuliform with thin maigin. Color dark, 

 reddish-bay. Stipes distinct. Hymenium often glaucous, uneven in 

 folds (hence incorrectly referred by some to Cladodenis). Cystidia, 

 none. Spores globose, hyaline, smooth, 4 mic. 



This is a frequent plant, particularly in Australia. Its original 

 identity is based on Meyer's description, which has little application 

 to the plant usually so referred. It was one of the first foreign species 

 named. Meyer described it as above, "Gregarie crescens, subcom- 

 pressus, undulatoplicatus, ad terram argillosa," which has little appli- 

 cation to the usual determinations. 



Its habits are peculiar, consisting of separate individuals, with 

 distinct stipes, the pilei becoming confluent into an imbricate rosette- 

 like cluster. It is very common in Australia, was originally from 

 South America, but evidently is widespread in the tropics. We have 

 specimens from India, Ceylon, and the West Indies. At Berlin Hen- 

 nings determined Stereum elegans as Stereum nitidulum. Berkeley 

 seems to have referred several different species to Stereum elegans. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. None published. Figures cited, Patouillard and Hennings, both misde- 

 terminations. 



SPECIMENS. Australia, F. M. Reader, J. T. Paul, Edmund Jarvis, W. R. Guilfoyle, A. G. 

 Hamilton, Miss E. T. Turner. Ceylon, T. Fetch. Jamaica, Wm. Cradwick. India, Donor Unknown. 

 Japan. A. Yasuda. 



STEREUM FLORIFORME (Fig. 540). Caespitose, connate, 

 infundibulifoim or spathulate, glabrous excepting tomentose at base, 

 i eddish-bay color. Growing in the ground, caespitose, the individual 

 mostly concresive. 



This is named on a sheet at Kew, a correction of Cooke's de- 

 termination of "Stereum Moselei" (with no resemblance to Moselei). 

 It is quite close to Stereum elegans, same color and habits of growth, 

 but is thicker, more spathulate, and the base of the stipe is tomentose. 



I have a specimen (Fig. 540) from G. A. Gammie, India, which, 

 as far as the plant goes, seems to be same species, but the white 

 mycelium binds the soil together in a hard lump. 



SPECIMENS. Dr. G. Zenker, Camerun, Africa (typical). G. A. Gammie, Poona, India. 



STEREUM CRENATUM (Fig. 541). Pileus glabrous, deep, 

 reddish-bay color, subinfundibuliform, but more or less lobed and 

 irregular. Stipe slender, rooting, minutely tomentose. 



This is rather a rare species, easily confused with Stereum ele- 

 gans, from which it differs in its separate habits of growth and slender 

 stipe. The type at Paris is a single head from Java. Recent South 

 American collections were distributed by Ule as Stereum petaloides, 

 as misdetermined by Hennings. At Paris is a specimen from French 

 Congo. 



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