Cortieium THELEPHORACE/E 



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1850. C. laetescens Berk, (from its habit of exuding a watery 



milk-like fluid ; /ac, milk) a b c. 



Waxy-soft, agglutinate, undulate or rugose at length cracked, 



pale flesh-colour or pale salmon ; marg. shortly byssoid. 



Dead wood, ash, willow. Oct. -Feb. 6 in. Interstices of cracks silky. 

 Superficially resembles 1893. 



1850a. C. strigosum Pers., var. filamentosum W. G. Sm., Thekphora 

 byssoides DC. (from the thread-like habit ; filum, a thread). 

 Sub. web-like, filamentous, string-like, dull yellowish, externally 



pulverulent. 

 On Amaryllis. 



1850b. C. violeum W. G. Sm., Hypochnus violeus Quel, (from the 

 colour). 

 Byssoid, thin, orbicular. Hym. velvety-floccose varying lilac and 



rose ; marg. thin pallid. 

 Dead branches, pear, apple. 



1851. C. laeunosum B. & Br. (from the hymenium, full of openings ; 



lacuno, to hollow out) a. 

 Broadly effused, soft, pulverulent, lacunose, exposing matrix 



beneath, tawny, ochreous or cinnamon, clouded pale umber. 



Myc. woolly, tawny. 

 Wood, branches. 5 in. 



1852. C. roseolum Mass. (from the rose-coloured hymenium) a b. 

 Broadly effused, indeterminate, very thin, waxy. Hym. smooth, 



continuous, not cracking, pale rose or salmon ; marg. whitish, 

 silky. 

 Worked wood, palings. Nov. 7 in. 



1853. C. aurora B. & Br. (from the rosy colour, like the dawn, 



aurora) a b. 

 Effused, thin, agglutinate, rosy, becoming pale salmon with a 



lighter indeterminate marg. 

 Dead leaves and stems of Carex, C. paniculata. Feb. 2\ in. 



1854. C. anthoehroum Fr. (from the rosy flower-like cloudings ; Gr. 



anthos, a flower, chros, colour) a b c. 



Broadly effused, membranous, floccoso-velvety, clouded brick-red 



or rose on a pale brownish ground. 



Investing dry bark, twigs, etc., sycamore, birch, spreading to earth; rare. 

 Nov. -Mar. 6^ in. Sometimes forming small, dark vinous patches. 



1855. C. molle Fr. (from its soft substance ; mollis^ soft) a c. 

 Irregularly rounded, floccoso-rleshy, loosely interwoven. Hym. 



waxy, papillose, cracked when dry, pallid, pale sienna to 

 reddish-buff; marg. naked, paler, sometimes byssoid. 

 Fir. 3$ in. 



1856. C. polygonium Pers. (from the hymenium, often covered with 



small polygons, from the confluence of small growths) a b c. 

 Adnate, determinate, soon hardened, somewhat grumous. Hym. 



