114 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



dry; cystidia cylindrico-fusoid, 80-120 x 15-20 /j.; spores 

 elliptic-oblong, 10-12 X 4 /x. 



Peniophora puhera, Mass., Mon. Thel., p. 149. 



Corticimn puberum, Stev., Brit. Fung. 277. 



On bark and wood. Often very broadly effused, margin 

 usually altogether indeterminate. Accompanying the typical 

 cystidia are elongated, hair-like bodies, 



Peniophora terrestris. Mass. 



Effused, very thin, indeterminate ; hymenium pale grey or 

 buff, velvety, cystidia cylindrico-fusoid, 80-90 x 15-20 /xj 

 spores elliptical, 10 x 6-7 /x. 



Peniophora terrestris, Mass., Grev. xv. p. 107 ; Mass., Mon. 

 Thel., p. 153. 



Euuning over branches, leaves, and the naked ground. 

 Forming pale grey or buff patches, resembling a mould in 

 appearance. 



Sub-gen. Scopuloides. Cystidia arranged in fascicles. 



Peniophora hydnoides. Cke. & Mass. 



Broadly effused, indeterminate, subinnate ; hymenium grey, 

 setulose; cystidia cylindrico-fusoid, aggregated in clusters, 

 70-120 X 12-14 /J. ; spores globose, 4-5 fx. 



Peniophora hydnoides. Cke. and Mass., Mon. Thel,, p. 154, 

 pi. xlvii., figs. 15, 16. 



On bark. Eesembling under a pocket-lens several of the 

 adnate species of Hydnmn and Grandinia, but on microscopic 

 examination the sjiine-like projections on the hymenium are 

 seen to consist of clusters of typical cystidia, 



HYMENOCHAETE. Lev. (fig. 5a, p. 94.) 



Sporophore entirely resupinate, effuso-reflexed, or entirely 

 free from the matrix and furnished with a central stem ; 

 hymenium minutely velvety with rigid, smooth, coloured, 

 projecting cystidia (setae) ; basidia tetrasporous ; spores 

 continuous, hyaline or coloured. 



Eymcnochaete, Leveille, Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 3, p. 150; 

 Mass., Mon. Thel., p. 95. 



A well-marked genus, characterised by having the 



