GRANDINIA. 



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GENUS XXXIX. Grandinia (grando, hail. From the granular Grandinia. 

 character of the hymenium). Fr. Gen. Hymenom. 



Hymenium amphigenous, continuous, waxy, warty with papillae 



or rather granulose ; granules globose or hemispherical, entire, 



obtuse or hollowed out at the apex, 



crowded, regular, smooth, persistent. 



Cnestaceous, effused, soft, improperly 



referred o?i account of their equal and 



persistent papilla to the Thelephorae, 



from which they are distinguished by 



their polished granules. Fr. Hym. 



Eur. p. 625. 



1. G. granulosa Fr. Tan-colour, 

 waxy, broadly effused, agglutinated, 

 circumference determinate, smooth; 

 hymenium equal, continuous. Gran- 

 ules hemispherical^ equal, crowded. 



On dead 

 Oct.-Feb. 



branches. Common. 



LXXX. Grandinia granulosa. 

 Natural size. Section four 

 times natural size. 



Forming a thin adnate stratum. M.J.B. 

 Name granum, a small seed. Granular. 



Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 626. Berk. Out. p. 264. C. Hbk. n. 882. S. Mycol. Scot. 

 11. 832. Pers. Syn. p. 576. 



2. G. mucida Fr. Pale yellowish, waxy-mucid, effused, some- 

 what innate, circumference determinate, somewhat radiate ; hyme- 

 nium continuous. Granules crowded, large, unequal, hemispher- 

 ical, soft. 



Somewhat gelatinous when moist, corrugated when dry. 



On rotting pine. Glamis, 1877. May-No v. 



Name mucidus, mucid. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 626. B. dr" Br. n. 1691. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 833. 



3. G. ocellata Fr. Livid, waxy, broadly effused, agglutinated, 

 the indeterminate circumference sterile ; hymenium unequal, con- 

 tinuous. Granules crowded, somewhat conical, obtuse, equal, of 

 the same colour. 



Unchanged when dry, not cracked, sterile in some places. The granules 

 terminate in a very delicate whitish apiculus, and on this sinking in the apex 

 is hollowed out forming as it were a small eye. 



On dead trunks. Bodelwyddan. Coed Coch. Aug.-Sept. 



