SOPPITTIELLA. 107 



forming veiy irregular stalactitic or tuberculose crust-like 

 patches. Wliite, soft, and fleshy when growing. Smell 

 none. 



The present species has nothing in common with Sehacinia 

 incrustans, Tul., Ann. Sci. Nat. (1872), t. x. f. 5-10. 



Soppittiella caesia. Mass. 



Eflused, thin, soft, bright grey, determinate ; inseparable ; 

 spores subglobose, spinnlose, vinous, 10 /x diameter. 



Theleplwra caesia, Persoon, Obs. Mjc. i. t. 3, f. 6. On 

 wood, moss, &c., on the ground. Forming thin, determinate 

 j)atches 1-4 or 5 in. across, soft and almost subgelatinous 

 when growing, hymenium not cracked when dry ; hyphae 

 brownish. Superficially resembling a thin soft Corticium, 

 but ^vith the pale vinous or brownish echinulate spores of 

 the present genus. The present species requires to be care- 

 fully distinguished from PeniojjJiora Crosslandi, which, under 

 a pocket-lens is minutely setulose with the white, projecting 

 cystidia. 



Soppittiella fastidiosa. Mass. 



AVhite, broadly effused, incrusting, shapeless or forming 

 irregularly flattened branches, very foetid ; hymenium papil- 

 lose becoming rufescent ; spores elliptical, rough, almost 

 colourless, 6-7 x 4-5 /j.. 



Tlieleplwra fastidiosa, Berk., Outl., p. 268 ; Cke., Hdbk. 901 ; 

 Stev., Brit. F. 265. 



On the ground, leaves, &c. White becoming cream- 

 coloured, running as a thin film, over everything in its 

 way, sometimes passing into free, flattened branches. Dis- 

 tinguished from T. cristata by its disagreealjle odour. Silky 

 and byssoid when young. 



Soppittiella cristata. Mass. (figs. 18, 19, p. 07.) 

 Pallid, incrusting, rather tough, here and there passing 



into irregular branches with awl-shaped or fringed tips ; 



hymenium papillose ; spores subglobose, rough, pale vinous, 



7-8 X Q iJ.. 



Thelephora cristata, Fr., Berk., Outl., p. 268 ; Sow., t. 158 ; 



Cke., Hdbk. 897 ; Stev., Brit. F. 265. 



On the ground, or incrusting leaves, mosses, &c. Very 



variable, forming thin, paint-like patches running over 



