98 NEW OR IMPERFECTLY KNOWN GA8TR0MYCETE8. 
thick, solid, whitish within, pale brown externally, continuing for 
about two- thirds the height of the gleba as a subflexuous 
columella ; external cavities of gleba sterile, inner irregularly 
angular or flexuose, lined with basidia, spores elliptical, ends 
acute, smooth, olive-brown, 10 X 6 /*. 
On the ground. Moonan Brook, New South Wales. (Miss 
Carter.) (Type in Herb., Kew.) 
An examination of the type specimen of Sphcericeps lignipes , 
Welw. and Curr., shows that this species is a typical Battarrea, 
hence the genus Sphcericeps must sink. The spores are sub- 
globose, yellow-brown, and distinctly warted, 7-8 p diameter; the 
short elaters are equal in diameter to the spores, and contain 
annular or spiral thickenings. 
TRAMETES AND ITS ALLIES. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
The genus Trametes , as interpreted by Saccardo in his “ Sylloge ” 
(vi., 334), seems to require some little rectification, and first, by the 
isolation of those aberrant forms for which we have already pro- 
posed the genus Sclerodepsis. (See “ Grevillea,” xix., p. 49.) 
SCLERODEPSIS. Cooke. 
Sclerodepsis Berkeleyi, Cooke Grev. xix., p. 49. Sacc. Syll. 6209 
Sclerodepsis colliculosa (Berk.), Sacc. Syll. 6237. 
Sclerodepsis lobata (Berk.), Sacc. Syll. 6208. 
Sclerodepsis Beyrichii (Fries), Sacc. Syll. 6201. 
Sclerodepsis laeticolor (Berk.), Sacc. Syll. 6191. 
These are separated on account of the acute edge of the pileus, 
the acute dissepiments of the pores, which are sometimes toothed, 
characters incompatible with Trametes. 
The residue of the genus would stand in something like the 
following relationship, although a few of the enumerated species 
are unknown to us : — 
TRAMETES. Fries. 
A. Scutate. Postice basi scutata , substipitatce. 
Trametes exp&llens, Fries. Sacc. Syll. 6160. 
Trametes centralis. Fries. Sacc. Syll. 6161. 
Trametes elegans, Spreng. Sacc. Syll. 6162. 
Trametes marchionica, Mont. Sacc. Syll. 6163. 
Trametes rhizophorse, Reich. Sacc. Syll. 6164. 
Trametes glabrescens, Berk. Sacc. Syll. 6165. 
Trametes crenulata, Berk. Sacc. Syll. 6167. 
