STEREUM SIMULANS. The types from Australia are in British 

 Museum. I did not examine a section, but I do not question that a plant 

 I collected abundantly in Samoa should be so referred, notwithstanding that 

 my plant was glabrous, and simulans was said to be tomentose. 



It is a rigid (but rather thin) species with a smooth, brown, zoned 

 pileus, yellowish context, and hymenium bleeds on being scratched. It is 

 quite close to Stereum subpileatum, in fact, might be held as a variety. 



Samoa C. G. Lloyd. 



STEREUM MEMBRANACEUM. This is a "Lloydella" Stereum with 

 a dark, purplish hymenium, quite common in the tropics and usually re- 

 ferred to papyrinum, which is a synonym. It is of much softer context 

 than most Stereums. No authentic specimen of membranaceum has been 

 seen by me, but it is said to be same as papyrinum, so common in the 

 museums under various names, and the description justifies this conclusion. 

 Various collections found in Montagne's herbarium determined as 

 Stereum membranaceum, are surely same as Montagne afterwards named 

 Stereum papyrinum. 



Nicaraugua and Mexico C. T. Smith. 



Bahamas L. J. K. Brace. 



Bengal S. Hutchings. 



Brazil Anna Brockes. 



STEREUM PERCOME. This is a "Fauxlloydella" with cystidia, not 

 metuloids. It was originally from Japan. Stereum latum is the same to 

 the eye, but a "Lloydella" with typical metuloids. I expect in time they 

 will prove to be the same species, for I doubt if the "hair" characters of 

 Thelephoraceae are always uniformly the same. 



New Caledonia from Mus. Paris, (labeled S. latum). 



India Donor unknown. 



STEREUM BICOLOR (Lloydella). Same as in Europe and United 

 States. 



South Africa W. J. Newberry. 



Japan A. Yasuda. 



STEREUM BICOLOR ? These specimens are thinner and the contrast 

 of color is not so great as in the European plant. Same section however, 

 and same metuloids. This collection has been named for me Stereum 

 Beyrichii, but is surely not same plant as I have seen so noted elsewhere 

 which "wants the cystidia which are present in bicolor." 



Samoa C. G. Lloyd. 



STEREUM FERREUM, Smith's collection in Mexico, Nos. 98 and 147, 

 as named by Ellis. Compared with the type at Kew and found to be cor- 

 rectly named. The types are resupinate, hence so placed in our literature. 

 Mr. Smith's collection is distinctly pileate. It is a "Lloydella." 



SECTION HYMENOCHAETE. 



This which is a "genus" for various authors is for me at best a section, 

 and not a very good one at that, for while in many species the "hairs" 

 are typically those of Hymenochaete, in Stereum luteo-badium and others, 

 they merge into "Lloydella" through various connecting forms and colors. 



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