320 



ATTRICULARINI. 



920. 



Auricularia lobata. Somm. " Lobed Auricularia. 



Pileiis effuso-rcflexcd, lobed, variegated with strigose or to- 

 mentose, yelvetj or smooth zones, brownish-white ; hymenium 

 livid-tawny; folds distant, reticulated. — Fr.Epkr.Tp. 555. Berk. 

 Outl. t. IS, f.l. 



On bark of trees. Staunton. 



Yery nearly allied to Auricidaria mesenterica. 



Gen. 41. 



CORTICIUM, Fr 



£!n 



Hymenium soft and fleshy, 

 swollen when moist, collapsing 

 and becoming even when dry, 

 often rimose. (^^^9' 84.) 



921. 



Fig. 84. 



Sect. 1. Apus. 

 Cozticiuzn evolvens. Fr. " Unfolding Corticium." 



Soft, resupinate, submarginate, floccose with pallid down ; hy- 

 menium zoneless, naked, smooth, somewhat rugose, brown, be- 

 coming pale, cracked when dry. — Fr. Epicr.p. 557. Ann. N.H. 

 no. 1029. Schniiz. Stum.t. 7. Fr. Ohs. i. t. 4,/. 5. Fl. Dan. t. 840, 



/.I. 



On dead cherry. Jan. King's Cliffe. 



[Low. & Mid. Carolina.] 



Sect. 2. Himantia. 

 922. Gozticium giganteum. Fr. " Large Corticium." 



Broadly effused, swelling when moist, waxy, hyaline, white, 

 cartilaginous or papery when dry, free, milk-white ; circumfer- 

 ence strigoso-radiate ; hymenium even, continuous. — Fr. Epicr. 



