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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
setulose. — Flor. Dan. 1851, /. 2. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H., No. 
1577. 
On the ground. Bnrnliam. Epping (J. Englisli). 
Stereum vorticosum. Fr. Ep. 639 . 
Pileus coriaceous, effused, reflexed, obscurely zoned, strigosely 
hairy, pallid, margin of the same colour ; hymenium somewhat 
costate, smooth, becoming purplish. — Bull. t. 483, /. 1~5. 
On trunks of birch. 
Stereum rufum. Fr. Ep. p. 644 . 
Between coriaceous and cartilaginous, erumpent, tuberculiform, 
then somewhat rounded, marginate, rufous, becoming brownish, 
smooth beneath ; hymenium greyish, pruinose, at length bullately 
tuberculose. 
On lime bark. Glamis. 
Corticium salicinum. Fr. Ep. 647 . 
Coriaceous, soft, rigid when dry, persistently cup-shaped, fixed 
at the centre, externally whitish villose ; hymenium nearly even, 
naked, persistently blood-red, contiguous when dry. — B. d’ Bi\ 
Ann. N.H., No. 1681. 
On willow branches. Forres. 
This is certainly the same with Exidia cinnaharina, B. & 0., 
which has the curved spores of Exidia. We have not sufficient 
specimens of the European form to justify us in separating it from 
Corticium, to which genus it can scarcely belong. — Berk. ^ Br. l.c. 
Cozticium amorphum. Fr. Ep. 647 . 
Messrs. Berkeley and Broome have some important remarks on 
this species in “Ann. Nat. Hist.” (Feb., 1876), p. 137, to the 
following effect : — 
“ This curious plant is so like large specimens of Peziza caly- 
cina that it is not surprising that the two should have been con- 
founded, and in consequence the plant figured by Wilkomm under 
that name is really P. calycina. We were at first inclined to think 
that it might be a conidiiferous form of the Peziza in question, 
analogous to Cyphella Curreyi, but the structure is such as to 
make us consider it autonomous, and probably the type of a new 
genus, for it does not agree well with the characters of Corticium. 
The substance is white and fleshy, consisting of rather coarse 
threads, which at the base form a close sclerotroid network. The 
hymenium consists of colourless threads, and orange-coloured, 
clavate bodies filled with pigment. These at length project beyond 
the surface, and produce four globose rough spores ‘001 in. in 
diameter, which contain an angular body within, which looks like 
a cystolith. After a time each spore becomes elliptic, and now 
measures -0012 in. in length, produces about eight elliptic echinu- 
late sporidiain its cavity, which are from ‘OOOd-'OOOb in. long — a 
circumstance without parallel, as far as we know, in Hymeno- 
mycetes. All these points have been observed by each of us inde- 
pendently ” (pi. 9, fig. 1). 
