HYDNEI. 



305 



876. Radulum fagineum. Fr, " Beech Radulum." 



Innate, decorticating, smooth, white, becoming pallid ; tu- 

 bercles elongated, terete, obtuse, entire. — Fr.El.p. 152. Fr. 

 Epicr.p. b2b. 



On prostrate beeches. Feb. Mar. ;^Epping Forest. W.G.S. 



[Mid. Carolina.] 



Tliis species was found in abundance in Epping Forest in 1869, but has 

 not been met with since. 



Gen, 32. 



PHLEBIA, Fr. S. M. p. 426. 



^.^^^^te^^ 



Hymenium soft and waxy (sub- 

 gelatinousj, spread over persistent 

 crest-like wrinkles or veins, whose 

 edge is entire. (Fig, 76.) 



Hymenium amphigenous, of a soft, waxy 

 texture, glabrous, continuous, from the 

 first corrugated, spread over crowded, in- 

 terrupted, and persistent wrinkles or veins, 

 whose edge is entire. Eesupinate, spread- 

 ing fungi, when moist gelatinous and waxy, 

 when dry cartilaginous.— i^r.^^^ic-r.^;. 526. 



Fig. 75. 



877. Phlebia meiismoides. />." Straight-folded Phlebia. " 



Effuse, even or encrusting, flesh-coloured, then livid, white 

 and villous beneath, circumference orange, strigose ; wrinkles 

 simple, straight, crowded. — F?-. Epicr.p. 526. Grev.t, 280. Huss. 

 ii. t. 44. Eng. F. v. p. 162. Bail, t.2d. 



On old stumps and decayed branches. Rare. 



[United States.] 



*' Plant 2-3 in. across, folds nearly straight when growing on a smooth 

 surface, passing into prominent papillae in individuals incrusting mosses." 

 Thin, almost tremelloid when fresh. (-Fiff. 7o.) 



878. Phlebia radiata. Fr. " Eadiating Phlebia." 



Subrotund, equal, smooth on both sides, fleshy-red, circum- 

 ference radiato-dentate, folds straight, radiating in rows. — Fr. 

 Epicr.p. 626. Sow.t.2dl. Eng.Fl.Y.p, 162. 



On baik. Very rare. Appin. [United States.] 



