No. 94. 
December, 1891. 
dr^illp. 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
NOTES ON THELEPHOREI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
Beccaiiella Trailii, CooJce. 
Spathulate, or broadly obovate, entire or lobed, stipitate, thick, 
spongy, becoming thick towards the fimbriate margin, white, 
densely tomentose at the base, margin almost smooth, stem 
lateral, stout, cylindrical, tomentose; hymenium radiato-rngulose, 
ridges thin, acute, margin irregularly broken up into short, conical, 
tooth-like processes; spores globose, apiculate, 7-8 p diam. 
On logs. Rio Junia, Brazil. (Dr. Traill.) 
From 2-4 in. across, stem ^-f in. long, ^ in. thick. 
Beccariella Kingiana, Massee. 
Reniform, thin, brittle when dry, and bullato-rugulose, surface 
woolly, ochraceous-buff, margin thin, rather fimbriate; sessile, 
attached by a lateral disc at the sinus ; hymenium radiato-rugulose, 
folds not prominent, thin edged, at the margin broken up into 
crowded, slender, small, hair-like spines, rufous-tan when dry ; 
spores globose, apiculate, 5 p diam. 
On rotten log in a damp place. Goping, Malay Archipelago. 
(Dr. G. King.) 
From 3-4 in. wide, 1J in. broad. 
Hypolyssus Sprucei, Massee. 
Clavate, stipitate, erect, white, becoming pale fawn-colour 
when dry ; hymenium completely surrounding the club-shaped 
hymenophore, smooth and waxy, very regularly longitudinally 
grooved, cracked when dry ; sterile apex plane, minutely velvety ; 
stem distinct, slender, minutely tomentose* downwards ; basidia 
tetrasporous, spores globose, 4 p diam., colourless. 
On wood and branches. Amazon Valley. (Spruce.) 
Entire fungus about § in. high. 
We fail to trace the following species in Saccardo’s Sylloge : — 
Thelephoira fusca, Fries (?) in Libert's Supp. No. 406. 
Spores globose, spinulose, 10 p diam., not Corticium fuscum, 
Pers. 
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