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flattened and fimbriate at the apex. Stipes crowded, short. 

 Hymenium even. 



On the ground in woods; rare. An inch or two in height. 

 Consisting of several or many stems, closely crowded together, and 

 arising out of a common mycelium, which immediately divide and 

 sub-divide into innumerable thread-shaped branches. 



8. T. ScHWEiNirzii, Peck. Csespitose, white or pallid. Pilei 

 soft coriaceous, much branched ; the branches flattened, furrow^ed 

 and somewhat dilated at the apex. Stipes variable in length, often 

 connate or fused together into a solid base. Hymenium even, be- 

 coming darker colored. 



On the ground in woods; very common. The pilei sometimes 

 growing separately an inch or two in height, but usually growing to- 

 gether in tufts or sometimes fused into large masses 4-6 inches or 

 more in extent. This is 71 pallida, Schw. N. A. Fungi, No. 619. 



b. Pileate, dimidiate, horizontal, sub sessile or ejfiiso-reflexcd. 



9. T. ALBiDO-BRUNNEA, Scliw. Spongycorky, widely effused. 

 Pilei at length narrowly reflexed, becoming sub-stipitate, sub- 

 tomentose, brown. Hymenium nearly even, white. 



Growing about the base of dead shrubs ; not common. Long 

 and broadly confluent, mostly resupinate ; the distinct pilei rarely 

 exceeding half an inch in length, irregularly subimbricate, 



10. T. MiCHENERi, B. & C. Pilei soft-coriaceous, umber, 

 spongy-tomentose, convex, often laterally confluent. Hymenium 

 even, bright ochraceous. 



Growing on the ground and upon sticks and stones ; rare. 

 Consisting of a number of orbicular laterally confluent individuals 

 an inch or so in length, each attached by a central point or ascend- 

 ing and incrusting the bases of dead shrubs and more or less effuso- 

 reflexed. Thinner and more fragile than the preceding species. 



11. T. cuTicui.ARis, Berk. Pileus soft-coriaceous, purp- 

 lish bruwn, sub-tomentose, imbricated and laterally confluent. 

 Hymenium nearly even, pulverulent. 



On the ground attached to wood, twigs, etc.; rare. Pilei f 

 of an inch long, uneven, rugged, brown inclining to purple, with 

 a pale margin; surface soft, clothed with matted down, zoncless; 

 odor strong and unpleasant. 



c. Resupinate, usually incrusting other substances, the form therefore 



variable. 



12. T. CRiSTATA, Pers. Incrusting, rather tough, pallid, 

 passing into ascending branchlets or lacidise, the apices subulate or 



