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THELEPHOEEAE. 



Sporophore erect and stipitate, with a central stem, eflfused, 

 with the upper portion free and reflexed, or entirely re- 

 supinate ; hymenium perfectly even or radiato-rugulose, 

 glabrous or minutely setulose with projecting cystidia ; 

 basidia normally tetrasporous ; spores continuous f (aseptate), 

 colourless or coloured. 



ANALYSIS OF THE GENERA. 



A. Spores coloured. 

 * Spores smooth. 

 Coniophora. — Eesupinate, dry and pulverulent. 

 Aldridgea. — Eesupinate, soft and subgelatinous. 



salicinum, showing paraphyses and basidia bearing four (solourless spores 

 each, the above elements spring directly from loosely interwoven hyphae ; 

 highly mag. ; — Fig. 5, section through plant of same growing on wood, and 

 showing the free upturned margin ; nat. size ; — Fig." 5a, section throu"-li 

 portion of hymenium of Ilymenochaete ruhirjinom, showing basidia with 

 spores, paraphyses, and long, coloured, spine-like, rigid cystidia,; these 

 last give a velvety appearance to the hymenium when examined 'with a 

 pocket-lens, and con.stitute the leading character of the genus ; highly 

 mag. ; — Fig. 6, Craterellus cornucopioides, a small specimen, nat. size. ; — 

 Fig. 7, section through hymenium of Penwphora cinerea, showing basidia 

 bearing globose spores, paraphyses, and large colourless, projecting 

 cystidia rough at the tip with minute particles of lime ; these latter give- 

 to the hymenium a minutely hispid or velvety appearance when viewed 

 through a pocket-lens, and constitute the leading generic character; 

 highly mag. ;— Fig. 8, section through two specimens of Solenia anomala ; 

 mag. ; — Fig. 9, a group of specimens of Cyphdla cnpuln ; growing on a 

 twig; nat. size; — Fig. 10, two specimens of the same; mag. 



t In Ilfterohasidium, a transition genus between the Thelephoreae and 

 the Hijphomycetes, the spores are septate. 



