THELEPHORA. 



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— crispa, a curl. Crisped. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 631. Berk. Out. p. 266. C. Craterellu?. 

 Hbk. n. 889. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 842. — Sow. t. 75. Hussey ii. t. 18. 



*■** Irregularly shaped, pileics and stem fleshy. 



5. C. clavatus Fr.— Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, somewhat 

 light yellowish, fleshy, turbinate, truncate or depressed, flexuous, 

 unpolished, attenuated mto the solid stem; flesh thick, white. 

 Hymenium even, then corrugated, purplish then changing 

 colour. 



Solitary or caespitose, occasionally branched. The hymenium is white- 

 pruinose with the spores, not separate, violaceous-flesh-colour passing into 

 fuliginous or umber ; hence the following forms are distinct : A. violaceous 

 then date-brown. B. flesh-colour. — Schceff. t. 164. Schmid. Ic. 2. /. 60. C. 

 purplish. Schceff. t. 276. D. umber. — Wulf. in Jacq. Coll. ii. /. 12./. 3. 



In beech wood. Bisham, Berks. 



Name — clavis, a club. Club-shaped. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 632. Sv. at I. 

 Sv. t. 91. B. & Br. n. 1445. — Kro?nbh. t. 45./. 13-17. 



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Genus XLIV. — Thelephora (0tjAt?, a teat; <pi P w, to bear). Theiephora. 

 Ehrh. Fr. Gen. Hymen. 



Hymenium inferior or amphigenous, continuous with the 

 hymenophore and similar to it, even or ribbed, without an in- 

 termediate stratum. Sporophores 

 4-spored. Coriaceous, destitute of a 

 cuticle, very varied i?i form {pileate, 

 clavate, resupinate), growing on the 

 ground. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 633. 



* E?-ect, pileus entire or divided into 

 branches. 



** Pileate, dimidiate, horizontal, some- 

 what sessile or effuso-rejlexed. 



*** Resupinate, for the ?nost part incr list- 

 ing, wherefore the forms are various. 



* Erect, pileus entire or divided 

 into branches. 



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LXXXIV. Thelephora laciniata. 

 One-third natural size. 



1. T. Sowerbeii B. & Br.— Snow- 

 white, at length changing colour, 

 here and there dingy yellow. Pileus 

 coriaceous, entire, infundibulifonn, 



rough with radiating processes projecting from the surface. Hy- 

 menium smooth (not bristly). 



