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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.) 



Hymenium inferior, toothed, teeth firm, somewhat coriaceous, 

 acute — spathulate in 1753— concrete with the pileus or subiculum, 



Fig. 88. — a, Irpex fuscoviolaceits Fr. ; B, section of same ; two-thirds natural size, c, d, teeth 

 of ditto; X 3. e, /. pendulus Fr., teeth enlarged, f, /". obllquus Fr., ditto ; G, ditto; X 6. 

 H, /. deformis Fr., teeth enlarged, j, /. spathulatus 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 Lenzitcs and Dcedalea. 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, if in. ; group 2\ in. Must 

 not be confounded with 1757. 



