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HYDNEI. 



Gen. 29. 



SISTOTREMA, Fr. Sys. Myc. 







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Hymenium spread over gill-like, 

 somewhat waxy teeth, irregularly 

 distributed, distinct from the pileus, 

 and easily separable. — Fr. S. M. p. 

 426. Epicr, p. 520. {Fig. 72.) 



Fleshy or membranaceous fungi, either 

 with a stem or sessile. 



vjr' --So. ^^ 



Fig. 72. 



869. Sistotrema conflueas. Pers. " Confluent Sistotrema." 



Simple, confluent, white; pileus fleshy, irregular, horizontal, 

 yillous; stem somewhat excentric ; teeth flexuose (entire or 

 jagged)'.— i^r. Epicr.p. 520. Bull. t. 453,/ 1. Grev. t. 248. Sow. 

 t.Tl2. Eng.Fl.Y. p. IQO. 



On the ground. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Gregarious, often anastomosing, or two or three growing into each other, 

 scentless, brittle, whitish, at length yellowish, or tinged with brown ; stem 

 attenuated below, central or lateral, about an inch iiigh ; pileus about 1 m. 

 broad, somewhat depressed. Tooth-like plates of the hymenium entire or 

 jagged.- Grey. I ^^^' "^^ 



Gen. 30. 



Fig. 73. 



Z&PES, Fr. El.p. 142. 



Teeth formed at an early stage of 

 the growth of the subiculum, con- 

 crete with it, and disposed in rows, 

 or like network, and connected to- 

 gether. {Fig. 73.) 



Hymenium inferior, at first toothed. 

 Teeth vaiiable, firm, somewhat coriaceous, 

 acute, entirely concrete with the pileus, 

 placed in rows, or netted and connected at the 

 l3ase into lamellae, or porous folds. Ligna- 

 tile fungi, rather coriaceous, approaching 

 Lenzites and Dadalea, but the hymenium is 

 toothed from the first, the teeth not lacer- 

 ated. — Fr. Epicr. J). 521. 



