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THELEPHOREI. 



Auricuiana. 1. A. mesenterica Fr. Pilei fuscous-cinereous^ resupinate then 

 reflexed, entire, \\l\o\is, fasciato-zoned. Hymeniumcostato-plicate, 



fuscous-violaceous. 



On stems of trees. Frequent. 



5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, gelatinous in 

 wet weather, hard and cartilaginous when 

 dry, reviving with wet. Hymenium pow- 

 dered with a beautiful bloom. M.J.B. 

 Spores white, 7x4 mk. W.G.S. Name 

 ju.ecre'i'Tepoi', the mesentery. Fr. Hym. Ear. 

 p. 646. Berk. Out. p. 272. C. Hbk. n. 

 919. Sow. t. 290. Hussey ii. /. 6. Bolt, 

 t. 172. Bull. t. 290. Michel. t.j66.f. 4. 



2. A. lobata Sommerf. As much 

 as 17.5 cent. (7 in.) long, 5-12.5 cent. 

 (2-5 in.) broad, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) 

 thick. Pileus fuscous - whitish, ef- 

 fuso-reflexed, lobed, variegated with 

 strigoso - tomentose, velvety and 

 Hymenium fuscous- 



LXXXVII. Anricularia mesen- 

 terica. One-third natural size. 



smooth zones, 

 livid, reticulato-ribbed with distant folds. 



Very much allied to A. mesenterica. 

 On bark of trees. Uncommon. 



Name lobatus, lobed. Sommerf. in Mag. Nat. Vidensk. 1827, with fig. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 646. Elench. \\. p. 34. Berk. Out. p. 272. t. iS.f. i. C. 

 Hbk. n. 920. 



Corticium. GENUS XLVIII. Corticium (cortex, bark). Fr. Epicr. p. 556. 



Hymenium amphigenous, even or tubercular, springing imme- 

 diately from the mycelium without an intermediate stratum ; in 

 typical species fertile and swelling when moist, fleshy-soft, con- 

 tracted and hence commonly cracked when dry, or the whole 

 breaking up. There are other species added to the genus with 

 the hymenium arid and incrusting. Sporophores 4-spored, rarely 

 single-spored. Resupinate, growing on wood, often sterile. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 646. 



I. LOMANTIA (A.u>/u.a, a fringe). Resupinate, but free at the circumference, 

 determinate, marginate, commonly cup-shaped then expanded. 



II. HIMANTLE (t/ia?, a strap). Resupinate, effused, immarginate, clothed 

 with flaxy fibrils or strigosely hairy at the circumference and beneath. Often 

 sterile, fibrillose (mycelia). In their perfect state they are furnished -with a 

 remarkably well developed, waxy-soft hymenium. 



