398 THELEPHORACE.E Craterellus 



1783. C. sinuosus Fr. (from the undulate pileus ; sinus, a curve) a be. 

 P. subfleshy, floccose, pale warm umber, pale ochre-umber or 



fuscous-grey. St. pallid cinereous or umber, becoming sooty- 

 umber. Hym. even, at length veined, folds broad, sometimes 

 rather distant, pallid, pale ochre-umber, almost white or dull in 

 hue. Flesh colour as St. 



Odour strong, musky. Woods, fir, mixed ; frequent. Aug. - Nov. 

 if X 2J x 5 in. Small forms are often confounded with 1789. 



1784. C. erispus Fr. (from the crisped or curled pileus) a b e. 



P. fleshy-membranous, brownish-ochre, fuliginous or fuscous. St. 

 pallid, pale warm- or yellowish-umber. Hym. even, pallid, 

 pale ochre-umber, almost white or pale dull ochre. Flesh pale 

 ochre-umber. 



Edible ; odour strong, musky. Woods, mixed ; frequent. Aug. -Nov. 

 2\ X 2 X \ in. Perhaps a variety of 1783. Small forms are almost 

 identical with 1789. They may, with 1733, be forms of one species. 



1784a. C. pusillus Fr. (pusillus, very small) a e. 



P. convex, umbilicate, thin, rugose, villous, cinereous. St. stuffed, 

 somewhat compressed, grey. Hym. smooth or slightly wrinkled, 

 pruinose, bluish-grey. 



Single to caespitose. Bare soil under beeches. Aug. § x § X J in. 



1785. C. elavatus Fr. (from the club shape when young ; elavis, a 



club) a e. 

 P. turbinate, truncate or depressed, dull pale yellowish ; mid. 

 pale purplish-salmon. St. attenuate downwards, colour as P. 

 Hym. even, then corrugate, dull brown-salmon, becoming 

 lavender-white or brown-purplish. Flesh pale dull yellowish or 

 pale purple-salmon. 



Solitary or c£espitose, sometimes branched. Edible. Woods, beech, fir. 

 Oct. 6| x 3 X i| n. Sometimes strongly resembles certain of the 

 larger Lactarii. 



LXXXI. THELEPHORA Ehrh. 



(From the sometimes papillose hymenium ; Gr. thele, a teat, 



phero, to bear ) 



Hymenium inferior or amphigenous, continuous with and similar 

 to the hymenophore, even, rugulose or ribbed, ribs sometimes more 

 or less papillose. Without the fibrillose stratum present in Stereutn. 

 Basidia 4-spored. Spores warted or echinulate. (Fig. 96.) 



Coriaceous, dry, fibrous, destitute of a cuticle, varied in form, 

 pileate, clavate or resupinate. Terrestrial or on stumps, branches, 

 leaves, earth and stones ; sometimes investing seedlings and living 

 plants. Some species more or less resemble brown flowers with 



