NOTES ON CLAVARIEI. 
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Xiachnocladium Kurzii, Berk, in Herb. 
Nigrescens (3 c.m. ait.) erectum, dense casspitosum, ramosis- 
simum, gracile, rigidum; ramulis cvlindraceis, ultimis tenuibus, 
subobtusis, compressis. 
Ad terram. Java ( Kurz . 558). 
Lachnocladium rubiginosum, Berk. fy Curt, in Herb . 
Rubiginosum, breviter stipitatum (8 c.m. ait.), ramosissimum, 
cylindraceum, dense velutinum ; ramis repetito-dichotomis, ramulis 
ultimis subulatis acutis. 
On trunks (?). Venezuela 218. 
The pubescence is caused by rigid brown setae, like those of 
Hymenochcete. 
Lachnocladium Hookeri, Berk. Sacc. Syll. 8176. 
There is no such species ; Berkeley afterwards stated (Fungi 
Ceylon, No. 673) that the specimens described under this name 
were Clavaria formosa , P. 
Acurtis gigantea ( Schwz .), Sacc . Syll. 7928. 
This is evidently spurious, both as to genus and species. 
Berkeley demonstrated in Gardener’s Chronicle, March 18, 1878, 
that the Clavaria gigantea of Schweinitz was only a malformation of 
Lentinus tigrinus , Fr. 
NOTES ON THELEPHOREiE. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
Hymenochaete episphaeria (Schu>.). Thelephora episphaeria, Schwein. 
Amer. Bor. No. 723. 
Spores olive, elliptical, 8 X 5 /jl. Setae smooth, slender, brown. 
Hymenochaete Kunzei (. Fr .), Mass. Mon. p. 100. Stereum Kunzei, 
Fries. 
British Guiana, Venezuela, Brazil. 
Hymenochaete barbata, Mass. Mon. p. 109. 
Ceylon. 
Hymenochaete Kalchbrenneri, Mass. Mon.p. 116. 
New Zealand, Australia. 
Hymenochaete nigrescens, Cooke, Mass. Mon. p. 104. 
Carlisle, G.B. 
Hymenochaete pallida, Cke. fy Mass, in Mass. Mon. p. 97. 
Mexico. 
Hymenochaete scruposa, Mass, in Herb. Berk. 
Effused, rugose, scrupose, tawny umber, margin flexuous, becom- 
ing free and floccose, paler. Cystidia numerous, 80-90 x 15 /a, 
bright brown. Spores, 7 X 4ft. 
On bark. Venezuela. 
