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AURICULAEINI. 



granuliform, apex multifid, rufcscent. — Fr.Epkr.p. 529. Pers. 

 M.E.t. 6,/. 5,6. Berk.exs.no. 143. llydnum fimhriatum, Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p.lbd. 



On fallen branches. [United States.] 



In youns^ perfect specimens the membrane is furnished with branched ribs, 

 which adhere less firmly to the matrix. Margin most elecantly radiato- 

 fibrillose, wliite. Dry specimens are of a uniform fawn-colour. Sometimes 

 the fimbriated margin is entirely absent. Warts at first granular, minute, at 

 length elongated. - i/. /. jB. (Fij. 77.) 



Order IV. A URICULARINI. 



Hymenium confluent with the hymenophore, at first even, or 

 rarely veined, and commonly remaining even. 



Fleshy — 



Hymenium distinct, even or rugose, putrescent 



when old Craterellus. 



Hymenium fleshy, tough, at length rigid, stri- 

 ate, veined, or papillose Thelepkora. 



Hymenium coriaceous, even, without bristles Stereum. 



_ Beset with short stiff bristles . . . Hymenochcete. 

 Hymenium gelatinous when moist, folded . . Aitricidaria. 

 Hymenium fleshy, collapsing when dry, even . Corticium. 

 Cup-shaped, submembranaceous — 



Hymenium inferior Cyphella. 



Cylindrical, tubular Solenia. 



Hymenium homogeneous, closely floccose, beset with 



rigid, fasciculate bristles Kneiffia. 



Gen. 35. KNEIFFIA, Fr. Gen. Hym. 



o 



O Soft, loosely fleshy, floccnlose 



® and collapsing when dry ; hyme- 



/^K^T^^'^^^^—gEgp- nium rough with rigid, scattered, 



(t^j^. i\'^^j-^*^-^^^-^-' and fasciculate bristles. 



W-iJ^'^^^L ,j ^\.'?^^i^^^^^ Hymenium amphigenous, continuous, 



^ .y •) \^l .  . ^j<^ i .-rf i\ ■^■^(i destitute of granules or warts, rough 



^^}^^r^^^^\A^iiZ'^'-^^ ^^^ ^^^^ bristles scattered or fasciculate. 



'S s^:^..,.^'}- :■: .#?>0'^^\ ''^'^ Fleshy, soft fungi protruding in various 



^^^^^^li^^k^ '0'="--^^^ forms from the clefts of bark, in their 



^^^\. '27^^^*^"-^ j^ most perfect form hemispherical ; col- 



^^^■-' - '^- " Y^^' (- "'^" ""j'^ lapsing into flocci when dry.-i^r. Epicr. 



Fig. 78. 



