AUEICULAEINI. 



319 



_ Differs from the foregoing in not being rigid, and in consequence shrivel- 

 ling when dry, and losing all its beauty j margin in general retiexed all round 

 —M.J.B. 



918. H3rxnenoch8ete corragata. 



chitte." 



Bej'k. "Cracked Hymeno- 



Effased, closely aclnate, indeterminate, cinnamon, cracked when 

 drj.—Berl\OutLp.272. Grev.t.234:. Berk. exs. no. 228, 24:9. 

 Thelephora corriigata^ Eng. Fl. \.p. 172. 



On sticks in woods. Common. [United States.] 



Ferruginous brown, with sometimes a slight purplish tinge and a grey 

 bloom, as if covered with a thin coat of white body-colour ; bristles uuder 

 the microscope jointed. — Grev. 



Gen. 40. 



AURICULARIA, Fr. 



Hjmeninm irregularly and 

 distantly folded, gelatinous 

 when wet, different in sub- 

 stance from the pileus. 



(Fig. 83 J 



Fig. 83. 

 919. Auziculaxia xnesenterica. Bull. " Entire Auricularia." 



Pilei resupinate, then reflexed, entire, villous, zoned and fas- 

 ciate, brownish-cinereous ; hymenium costato-plicate, brownish- 

 violet.— Fr. Epicr.p. 555. Bull. t. 290. Soiu. t. 290. Bolt.t. 172. 

 Moug. exs. no. 492. Desm, exs. no. 221. Mich. t. ^j^Tf. -1. Huss. ii. 

 t. 6. Phlehia mesenterica, Eng. Fl. \.p. 162. Coohe, exs.' no. 308. 

 Rahh. F.E, no. 1215. Price,/. 21. 



On stems of trees. [Mid. Carolina.] 



At first effused, and quite resupinate, at length more or less reflexed, often 

 dimidiate, occasionally infundibuliform, 2-3 in. broad, gelatinous in wet 

 weather, hard and cartilaginous when dry, the upper surface tomentose, 

 more or less zoned or fasciated ; hymenium purplish-violet or light -brown, 

 quite smooth or wrinkled, especially when dry, powdered with a beautiful 

 bloom.— J/. /. B. Spores white, '00027 X -00013 in. (Fig. 83.; 



