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HYDNACE^E 



Irpex. 



LXXIII. IRPEX Fr. 



(From a fancied resemblance in the fruiting surface to the teeth of a 



harrow, irpex^) 



Hymcnium inferior, toothed, teeth firm, somewhat coriaceous, 

 acute spathulate in 1753 concrete with the pileus or subiculum, 



B 



Fig. 88. A, Irpex fuscoviolaceus Fr. ; B, section of same ; two-thirds natural size, c, D, teeth 

 of ditto; X 3. E, /. pendulus Fr., teeth enlarged. F, /. cbliquits Fr., ditto ; G, ditto; X 6. 

 H, /. deformis Fr., teeth enlarged. J, /. spathnlatus Fr., teeth ; X 3. 



arranged in irregular rows, like broken gills or broken honeycomb, 



connected at the base by veins or folds. Basidia 4-spored. (Fig. 88.) 



Generally growing on wood, somewhat sessile or resupinate, 



approaching Lenzites and Dadctlca. Species 1748 1756 



Pendulous, with the pileus extended behind. 1748 



Effuso-reflexed, marginate. 1749 1751 



Resupinate. 1752 1756 



1748. I. pendulus Fr. (from the pendulous habit) a c. 



P. membranous, slightly rugose or plicate, adpressedly squamu- 

 loso-pilose, light yellow to white-brown. Te. in rows, large, 

 incised, white. 



Sticks, pine, larch, spreading on to moss ; rare, rjj in. ; group 2\ in. Must 

 not be confounded with 1 757. 



