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T. laciniata Pers. injures various trees by its leathery incrustations. 

 T. galactina Fr. 



Resupinate, broadly effused, encrusted, smooth, milky in color. 

 The root rot on oak is in tj'-pe much like that caused by Armillaria 



Fiu. 296. — Telephora laciniata. After Clements. 



mellea. It also causes a root rot of apple trees throughout the 

 Central States.*^ 



Hymenochaetae noxia Berk, is a practically omnivorous ftmgus 

 attacking hevea, cacao, tea, dadap, castilloa, Caravonica cotton, 

 bread fruit, camphor, throughout the eastern tropics. 



Septobasidium Pat. (p. 406) 

 As Thelephora but with septate basidia. 



