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native Stereums. It was named by Schweinitz, and his specimens
are still in existence. When fresh the plant is white, but old specimens
turn brownish with age.
SPECIMENS. We have never seen this rare plant growing, but have received specimens from
several correspondents.
STEREUM UNDULATUM (Fig. 535). Pileus mesopodial,
thin, infundibuliform, smooth, pale gray, faintly zoned when fresh.
Stipe short, slender, villose. Cystidia hyaline, smooth. Spores elliptical,
2x5, smooth.
This is the tiniest little Stereum that
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n^# A we have, and is quite rare and never has
been correctly known in American mycol-
/ ogy. It occurs on the naked ground, prefert
/ ably burned, it is said. In Europe it is
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mostly recorded from northern stations,
Fig 535
and the plant is known in the museums
chiefly from Karsten's Exsic. No. 912.
The record in England is an error of determination. Fries placed
it in Thelephora. It has been called Crateiellus, Merulius, Hymenochaete,
Podoscypha, Bresadolina, and could be called Lloydella on
the nature of its hairs. We think it is best called Stereum. As to
specific names, it has been named two or three times by both Peck
and Berkeley, as found in our synonyms.
SPECIMENS. I have never collected this little rare species, but have seen it in Peck's museum,
and Karsten's Exsic. in several museums. I have a specimen from V. de Aranzadi, Spain.
ILLUSTRATIONS. Ann. Myc., Vol. 7, p. 427. (The figure Bulliard t. 465, fig. 1, cited by Saccardo
is an error for Cantharellus crispus. It has no resemblance whatever to Stereum undulatum.)
Fig. 536
Stereum Sowerbyi.
Fig. 537
Stereum Burtianum.
STEREUM SOWERBYI (Fig. 536). Pileus ungulate, repand
infundibuliform. White, discoloring in drying. Stipe short, white,
not strongly distinct from the pileus. Inner surface fibrillose with
radiating fibrils. Grows in the ground, and only known from one
locality (Burnham Beaches), England, and not, I believe, in recent
years. It was illustrated (T. 155) by Sowerby as Thelephora pannosa,
and his specimens are still at Kew; but the figure, while evident,
is not good. When Berkeley first received the plant he referred it
to Thelephora laciniata Sow. t. 158, which being a duplication, he
changed the name to Thelephora Sowerbyi. Afterwards when he
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