SECTION 5. 



Stipitate with a mesopodial stipe. Pubescent or hirsute. Hymenium even. 



STEREUM HYDROPHORUM (Lloydella) (Fig. 547). In- 

 fundibuliform, cup-shape, rather thick and leathery. Color brown, 

 with pubescent surface with raised zones. Hymenium brown, velu- 

 tinate to touch. Stipe solid, round, even, brown velutinate. The 

 hymenial surface is velutinate with (cystidia?) projecting hyphae, 

 slendei, subhyaline (slight colored), sometimes branched and ir- 

 regular. Tissue composed of colored hyphae, and the pubescence is 

 colored. 



Fig. 547 

 Stereum hydrophorum. 



Fig. 548 



Stereum "nitis Avis." 

 (Reduced one-half.) 



There are several collections at Kew, all from Brazil or British 

 Guiana. Schomberg first sent it as a curious fungus which he usually 

 found as cups full of water, hence Berkeley named it as above. It 

 was well-figured at the time. Later Spruce sent ample specimens 

 (Fig. 548) that had a curious, dendroid growth on the inner face. 

 Berkeley labeled it "Stereum nitis Avis Spruce," but when he pub- 

 lished and figured it he referred it to Stereum hydrophorum, and no 

 doubt correctly. There are no traces of this growth on most speci- 

 mens in the museums, and why it should occur on some is not known 



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