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what flexible to firm, laterally connate, 1-3-2-5 cm. broad X 1-4 cm. long x 
•5-1 mm. thick, surface concentrically zoned, sulcate, tomentose, brown to 
pale and ashy, margin undulate to lobed ; hymenium even, pinky-buff, 
cystidia absent ; spores hyaline, flattened on one side 4-5 X 2 fj,. 
Gillitts, by W. Haygarth. 
This appears close to Stereum lobatum, with surface more sulcate and 
more densely pubescent and general appearance more firm. 
Stereum hirsutum (Wild.), Fr. (Fig. 5.) 
Plants sessile, effused — reflexed, coriaceous, drying firm ; pileus imbricate, 
surface strigose — hirsute, zoned, concentrically furrowed, ochraceous buff 
Fig. 5. 
becoming grey in age, connate, 1-5-4 cm. broad x 1-5-6 cm. long x 1 mm. 
thick ; hymenium even, buff-coloured ; spores hyaline, flattened on one 
side, 6-5-7-5 x 2-2-5 /x ; cystidia absent. 
A very common fungus on old logs all over South Africa. Also a wound 
parasite on fruit and other trees. 
Fig. 6. 
Stereum Kalchbrenneri, Mass. (Fig. 6.) 
Plants sessile, pileus coriaceous, dimidiate to reniform, attenuated at 
