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from the hymenium, but have the fascicles composed of hyaline 

 hyphae. 



Veluticeps Berkeleyi Cooke, Grevillea 8: 149. 1880; Pat- 

 ouillard, Myc. Soc. Fr. Bui. io: 77. pi. S.J.I. 1894. 



Hymenochaete veluticeps Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 

 io: 333. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 600. 1888; Massee, Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 116. 1890. 



Illustrations: Myc. Soc. Fr. Bui. 10: pi S.f.l. 

 Type: in Kew Herb, and in Curtis Herb. 

 Fructification dimidiate, coriaceous, hard and brittle, on the 

 upper side brown, sulcate-zonate, velutinous, becoming glabrous; 

 hymenium pallid cinnamon, plane, thickly studded with pro- 

 truding fascicles of very dark 

 hyphae; in structure 1-2 mm. 

 thick, composed throughout of 

 colored hyphae arranged in three 

 layers, a broad intermediate layer 

 of longitudinally arranged hyphae 

 which turn upward on the upper 

 side to form the velutinous surface 

 layer and turn downward on the 

 opposite side and terminate in 

 the hymenium ; bister -c olored 

 hyphal fascicles 40-60 /z in diam- 

 eter, 800 m or more long, extend 

 through the under layer of tawny olive subhymenial hyphae and 

 protrude up to 40-60 m beyond the basidia; spores not found. 



On logs in woods, often on the under side. May, July. 

 Cuba. 



V. Berkeleyi may be recognized by its aspect of a Hydnum 

 which upon close examination shows its teeth-like projections on 

 the hymenial side to be really hyphal fascicles not covered by the 

 hymenium. The spores were found to be ovoid and hyaline by 

 Patouillard. Six collections of this species by C. Wright are 

 reported by Berkeley & Curtis in Fungi Cubenses, from which it 

 would seem that the species is common, but I have been able to 

 see no more recent collections from any source. It is possible 



Fig. 4. V. Berkeleyi. Section of 

 fructification at left, showing hyphal 

 fascicles, X 19; at right, a single 

 fascicle, X 90. 



