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ILLUSTRATIONS. Persoon Icon, et Desc. t. 1, tig. 3. I am satisfied that this figure is misleading
as to the usual plant, at least both as to the regular infundibuliform shape and the setulose
hymenium as shown. Neither of these characters are borne out by the specimens still in Persoon's
herbarium, nor by the usual plant as found in recent years.
I have a collection from France recently that seems to bear out Persoon's figure, and it is possible
that the usual merismatoid plant of the museums (and of Persoon's herbarium) is not the same as the
infundibuliform plant originally. It is a proble ilem for tl the future.
STEREUM ACULEATUM. Known from but one collection in Southern
United States, is piobably only the American expression of Stereum pallidum.
While on comparison it appears more regular, thinner, with thin, eroded edges, yet
it has same habits, fibrillose surface, color (darker, it seems), and is in the main the
same plant. It is apparently extremely rare. But two specimens were ever collected
by Ravenel one is at Kew, the other in the British Museum.
STEREUM CONFUSUM. Known from but one collection from New Zealand,
is likewise probably only a form of Stereum pallidum. It has the same color
and general characters, but the few specimens known are more simple and not
surely merismatoid in habits.
STEREUM PETALODES (Fig. 551). Pileus reddish brown,
sessile, cut into lacerate lobes which appear merismatoid. As to
surface and color, very much like the preceding. It is known from a
single specimen from San Domingo. At first sight it appears as
though consisting of separate, spathulate individuals, but is really
one lacerated plant. It is therefore not "petaloid." Ule's distiibution
2756 from Brazil of Henning's deteimination has not the most
remote resemblance to it (cfr. Stereum crenatum).
Fig. 552
Stereum laminosum.
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