Besides as the genus Stereum was originally based on these hairs, it is only 

 a question of a juggle to rename all Hymenochaete species as Stereum 

 and all (other) Stereums as something else. The jugglers do not seem 

 to have as yet discovered this. 



STEREUM VILLOSUM. This species of the East is the analogue of 

 our Stereum tabacinum. Leveille gave it two or three different names and 

 Berkeley also. The normal color is the same as that of Stereum tabacinum, 

 but it takes what for me is a dark form (fuliginous) and was called Stereum 

 adustum by Leveille. Specimen from: 

 Java J. P. Mousset. 



STEREUM DAMAECORNE. A frequent and quite variable species 

 of the American tropics, but unknown elsewhere. It varies from simple, 

 reniform pilei to pinnatifid, multiplex in the same collection. Naturally 

 it has several names, but they are of no value in my opinion, even as to 

 forms. It is the only stipitate species known in the section Hymenochaete. 

 Specimen from: 



Brazil Gustavo Peckolt. 



STEREUM LUTEO-BADIUM. This species has had quite a compli- 

 cated history. Kunze first named it from Weigelt exsic. from Surinam 

 "Thelephora badia Hook." Hooker had previously named a Thelephora 

 badia from South America, and while he never did much with fungi, he 

 apparently did not like the determination of Kunze and published and 

 figured both species (Bot. Misc., 1831) and changed Kunze's name to 

 Thelephora Kunzei. Saccardo seems to have overlooked both the name 

 and the figure. A year previously, however, Fries had published in Lin- 

 naea the Weigelt exsiccatae specimen as Thelephora luteo-badia, which 

 being a good name for it we adopt. It is quite a strongly marked species 

 in having the color of the hymenium yellowish, differing from the tabacinus 

 color of the pileus. It is not a "typical" Hymenochaete for the hairs of 

 the hymenium are also yellowish, not deep red-bay as in the usual species. 

 Still as "hairs" vary in color from very slight traces of color in some 

 species to the intense deep color of Hymenochaete, I do not know where 

 to draw the line between "Lloydella" and "Hymenochaete." Stereum luteo- 

 badium seems fairly common in tropical America. We have specimens from 

 Anna Brockes and Gustavo Peckolt, both from Brazil. 



STEREUM TENUISSIMUM. Thinner and with fewer setae, but for 

 me very much the same species as tabacinum of Europe. Specimens from: 

 Africa Hyac. Vanderyst. 

 Brazil Dr. Anna Brockes. 



STEREUM ATTENUATUM. This is quite a thin little species, the 

 smallest known. Excepting as to size, however, it is about the same as 

 the preceding. Specimens from: 

 Japan A. Yasuda. 



PSEUDO THELEPHORACEAE. 



PHLEBIA STRIGOSO-ZONATA (Auricularia strigoso-zonata Schw. 

 McG.). It develops that there is a widely distributed plant through the 

 world which has the general texture and appearance of a Stereum but 



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