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MB. GEOEGE MASSEE ON THE THELEPHOBE^). 





late- 



lateque effusum, indetermiuatum, subcrassum, ceraceum, 

 ritio-expallens, superficie bullato-tuberculosum, subtus et ambitu 



nudum; sporse ellipsoideae, 7x4 jx. — Bahenh. in 

 n. 1006. 



Fung 



Eur. 



Saxony. Broadly effused on beams in subterranean places 



Cobticium sanguineum, Fr. Late effusum, iudetermina- 

 tum, laxe adherens, subtus araueosum, sanguineum, ambitu laxe 

 fibrilloso hymenioque l*evi, glabro, incarnatis, demuin palliuis ; 

 spore ellipsoidtie, Gx4/i.— Fr. Hym. Eur. 650; Berk. Outl 

 274 ; P. Kant. Myc. Fenn. 713 ; Wint. Krypt. Fl. 336 ; Stevens. 

 Fung. Brit. 276 ; Cooke, Randb. i. 322. (Specimen from Fries in 

 Herb. Kew\)— Ex$. : Berk. Brit. Fung. 251; P. Karst. Fuug. 

 Fenn. 132 ; Fuckel, Fung. Khen. 2507. 



On wood. Britain ; N . Europe ; U. States. 



Irregularly effused, aduate, thin ; margin fibrillose or byssoid, 

 running off into spreading strands of mycelium of a blood-red 

 colour, mixed with thicker blackish-red radiating cord-like 



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threads which penetrate and stain the wood red. Hymemum 

 rarely red, generally pinkish or dirty ochraceous, slightly cracked 

 when dry, usually barren and minutely fibrillose. 



Corticium tbemellinum, Berk. $[ Rav. Tremelloideum, albi- 

 dum, siccum rufesceus ambiens ; hymenio glabro, nitido ; spora? 

 ellipsoideae, 10 x 5-6 p.—BerJc. Sf Bav. in Grev. i. p. 180. (Type 

 in Herb. Berk. 3997.) 



On the ground, running over whatever it meets with. Dirty 

 white, gelatinous, tremelloid ; rufous, hard and horny when dry. 

 (Berkeley.) 



Effused, irregular in form, dark reddish brown when dry, often 

 covered more or less with particles of leaves, moss, &c, caught up 

 in the gelatinous condition ; hymenium smooth, polished. 



On the ground and on bark. TJ. States. 



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Var. eeticulatum ; fuciforme, fasciculatum, reticulatum. 

 Imitating in form Podisoma macropus ; forming erect fucoiu 

 tufts, reticulated below. 



Cokticitjm viticola, Fr. Effusum, confluens, adglutinatum, 

 ambitu fibrilloso ; hymenio lsete aurantiaco vel rubro ; sporff 

 ellipsoideae, utrinque acuminata, 8x5/j. — Fries, Epicr. 561. 

 Thelephora viticola, Schwein. Car. Syn. 1037 ; Syn. &. Amer- 

















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