126 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



appearing under the form of small, distinct Tuhercularia- 

 like pustules, wliicli generally become confluent, thick, and 

 again separating more or less when dry, giving the patch 

 a much cracked appearance ; sometimes continuous, then 

 tuberculose ; margin thin, adnate, hyssoid ; hymenium prui- 

 nose, pinkish, lilac, or dirty ochraceous. 



Corticium sanguineum. Fries. 



Broadly efl'used, indeterminate, loosely attached to the 

 substratum, cottony below and with the radiating marginal 

 strands blood-red ; hymenium smooth, even pale red, then 

 pallid ; spores elliptical, (5 x 4 yu.. 



Corticium sanguineum, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 650 ; Mass., 

 Mon. Thel., p. 14G. 



On wood, fallen branches, &c. Irregularly and often very 

 broadly eifused, thin, margin fibrillose or byssoid, running 

 off into spreading strands of mycelium of a blood-red colour, 

 mixed with thicker blackish-red radiating cord-like threads, 

 which penetrate and stain the wood red. Hymenium rarely 

 red, generally pinkish or dirty ochraceous when dry, 

 .slightly cracked, often barren and minutely fibrillose. 

 Usually rare, but during the rainy season of 181>1 was found 

 abundantly in the New Forest, near Lyndhurst, covering the 

 under surface of branches lying on the ground. 



Corticium Carlylei. Mass. 



Forming closely adnate, elongated patches, waxy, thin, 

 polished, margin white, soon disappearing ; hymenium 

 naked, dingy orange, not cracked when dry ; spores cj'lindric- 

 ellipsoid, both ends obtuse, curved, 18-20 x 5-6 /t. 



Corticium Carlylei, Mass., Mon. Thel., p. 148. 



Forming ehmgated patches, often several inches long by 

 about 1 in. broad, very closely attached to the matrix, and 

 when dry, contracting below the level of the bark. Hyme- 

 nium rather shining, of a dingy orange, Avith sometimes a 

 foxy tinge ; when in full vigour there is usually a narrow 

 whitish margin, which, however, generally disappears with 

 age. The hymenium does not change colour in drying, 

 neither does it become in the least cracked. 



Corticium flaveolum. Mass. 

 Effused, membranaceous, loosely attached to the matrix. 



