



MB. GEORGE MAS SEE ON THE THELEPHORE2B. 



155 





first pulverulent, but afterward rough with minute papillae ; re- 

 sembling such ThelepTiorce as T. laxa, &c. 

 Forming a thin separable film. 





Corticium 



Fr. Irregulariter effusum, tenue, 



atro-virens, subtus et ambitu tomentosum, concolor; hymenio 



4-5 



m 



Fr. Hym. Eur. 651 ; Berk. Outl. 273 ; Cooke, 

 Stevens. Fung. Brit. 277. 



On rotten wood, leaves, sticks, &c. Britain ; Sweden. 



Effused, very thin, blackish or verdigris-green; hymenium 

 when perfect paler, glaucous and waxv : margin indeterminate. 









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C. Amphiyena, tenuissima, innata, decorticantia. 



Corticium nigbescens, Fr. Effusum, interruptum, epider- 

 mide avulsa nudum, innatum, tenue, e lutescente nigrescens; 

 hymenio subinde papilloso, ceraceo, subpruinoso ; sporae cylin- 

 draceo-oblongae, utrinque obtusissimae, curvulae, 18-20 X 5-6 /u. 

 Fr. Epicr. p. 565 ; Hym. Eur. p. 656.— Thelephora nigrescens, 

 Schrad. Spic. p. 186.— Exs. : Syd. Myc. March. 1707. 



On branches. Britain; Europe. 



Originating underneath the bark, with the habit of Corticium 

 comedens, from which it is readily distinguished by being pale at 

 first and then becoming blackish, whereas C. comedens is purple 

 and becoming whitish when old. Effused, very thin, agglutinated, 



indeterminate ; hymenium waxy, powdered with the very large 

 spores. 



Coeticium comedens, Fr. (PI. VI. f. 5.) Effusum, innatum, 

 subcortical ; epidermide divulsa nudum, e lilacino pallescens; 

 hymenio laevi, glabro, sicco rimoso ; sporaB cylindraceo-ellip- 



~— ~v,«,, wLCfuum curvuiae, 

 Berk. Outl. 276 ; Cooke, Hi 

 *" Karst. Myc 



u. — Fr. Hym. Eur 

 Stevens. Brit. Fung 



Wint 



comedens, Nees, Syst. i. 255. Thelephora decorticans, 



Thelephora 



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Fuckel, Fung. Ehen. 1309; Eoum. Fung. Gall. 2012; Sydow, 

 %c March. 408; P. Karst. Fung. Fenn. 53; Thuem. Fung. 

 Austr. 329 • Berk. Brit. Fung. 22 ; Thuem. Fung. Univ. 514. 



On branches, especially hazel. Britain ; Europe ; N. Ame- 

 rica ; Ceylon ; S.E. Australia. 





































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