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thin and brittle when dried. Cystidia, none. The microscope shows
a few minute, hyaline hairs on upper surface, which are not visible
to the eye.
This is quite a frequent plant in the tropics, and numerous collections
at Kew and Berlin have been generally misreferred to Stereum
elegans, from which it differs entirely in its habits of giowth. It
grows singly or giegarious on branches and wood. I found it in
Samoa varying from an inch or two in diameter up to three or four
inches. However, I have not noted such large specimens in the
museums. There are specimens at Kew (referred to Stereum elegans)
from Afiica, Brazil, Australia, East Indies, West Indies, and Ceylon.
While Berkeley usually refeired it to Stereum elegans, a single specimen
from San Domingo he called Stereum fulvo-nitens. Recent collections
from the Philippines are in error referred to Stereum Junghuhnii.
SPECIMENS. While it is frequent in the museums of Europe, we have only our own collection
from Samoa.
Compare Stereum affine and Stereum malabarense in Section 9, similar plants as to color and
habits, but flabelliform as to shape.
Fig. 545
Stereum pergameneum.
Fig. 546
Stereum Mellisii.
STEREUM PERGAMENEUM (Fig. 545). This has very much the shape and
color of Stereum nitidulum, but differs in habits. It grows on rotten wood and has
no rooting base. It is best known from Rav. Exscc. No. 25, and, I think, has never
been collected by any one excepting Peters in Alabama. I can not be sure that
Stereum pergameneum is other than old, discolored specimens of Stereum diaphanum,
but it is so much daiker than any of my specimens oi diaphanum that for the present
I prefer to hold it as distinct.
STEREUM MIQUELIANUM. This seems to differ from Stereum pergameneum
as Ravenelii differs from nitidulum in being thinmr, more slender, and more
delicate species. It occurs in Brazil, and at Kew is named in mss. by Cooke, Stereum
Trailii. I have also a specimen from Rev. T. Gillet. Congo Beige. It grows on
branches and, according to Trail's collection notes, was "whitish when fresh." No
type of Stereuni Miquelianum was found by me in Montagne's herbarium, but
from locality, habitat, and description I have little doubt it is the same plant that
I saw at Kew.
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