Thklephora. 149 



C. clavatus. 



Pileus, 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, somewhat light yellowish, 

 fleshy, turbinate, truncate or depressed, flexuous, unpolished, 

 attenuated into the solid stem ; flesh thick, white. 



Hymenium, even, then corrugated, purplish then changing 

 color. — Stevenson'' s British Fungi. 



Found scattered specimens in woods near Cedar Creek. 



Genus LX. THBI/BPHORA. 



Hymenium costate or ribbed, of a tough, fleshy substance, 

 more or less piliate. 



T. palmata. Fr. 



Pileus, palmately branched from a common stalk, brown, 



branches flat, even, tips fimbriated. When freshly gathered it 



has a fetid odor. 



Kuhn's woods, near Chapman's Station, on the Catasauqua & Fogels- 

 ville Railroad. 



T. laciniata. Pers. 



Coriaceous, soft, incrusted, brown, pilei imbricated, fibrous 

 squamose, margin fimbriated, at first white, hymenium inferior, 

 papillose. 



Not very common. Jungle near Trexlertown. 



T. Schweinit^ii. 



Caespitose, white or pallid. Pilei soft-coriaceous, much 

 branched ; the branches flattened, furrowed and somewhat 

 dilated at the apex. 



Stems, variable in length, often connate or fused together 

 into a solid base. 



Hymenium, even, becoming darker colored. — Morgan's 

 Mycologic Flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio. 



