ThelepJiora.] FUNGI. Iu3 



a nipple, and ^r^w, to hear, from tlie papillose appearance of 

 the Jiymenium in many species. 



*PiIeus stipitate, more or less entire, 



1. T. elegans, j\Iey. (handed ThelepJiora) ; between fleshy and 

 coriaceous, pileus smooth (subplicate) banded with brown, 

 beneatli flesh-coloured pruinose. {JSley, Ess. p. 305.) fide Fr. 

 Fr, Sfjst. Myc, v. \, p. 430, 



Woods, about the roots of trees. Oct. Very rare. Cotterstock, 

 Norths., for two successive years ; Rev. M. J. Berlielty. — Gregarious, 

 often confluent, 2 inches high, sometimes much torn, the margin espe- 

 cially subplicate, crenate, subinfundibuliform, substipitate, the upper 

 surface bright reddish-brown, with brown bands,lower surface dirty flesh- 

 coloured, pulverulent, not the least pilose under a powerful lens. Flesh 

 reddish-brown ; the brown bands often proliferous. This fine species 

 has not, that I am aware of, been found in any other spot in Great 

 Britain than that mentioned above. Tlie description given in Fries, 

 S//st. Mi/c. so exactly agrees with my specimens, that there can be no 

 doubt that it is the species of Meyer, though as Dr. Greville, to whom 

 I sent specimens, remarks in a letter, it is singular that a Fungus, hitherto 

 known alone as belonging to Guiana, should be discovered in this 

 country. 



2. T. pannosa, Sow. {cloth-like Thelephora) ; corky pallid, 

 pileus depressed squamose even, beneath subpilose. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. 1. p. 430. — a. stem long. Ilelvella pannosa. Sow. 

 t. 155. — b. stem short. Craterella pallida, Pers. Ic, et Descr. 

 t^ \.f. 3. — Thdephor a pallida, Pers. Syn. p. 565. 



On the ground. Ilampstead, Soirerhy. — " Gregarious, subcrespi- 

 tose, woody but thin, 2 inches high. Stem distinct, subvillous. Pihus 

 infundibuliform, torn, fimbriated ; hymenium iiispid under a lens." 

 Fr. I. c. 



The above account is taken entirely from Fries ; but I have vainly 

 endeavoured to delect any traces of hairiness on the hiimcniuia in 

 Sowerby's original specimens, even under very high magnifiers. In 

 other respects, there is a perfect agreement. 



** Stipitate, branched and laciniated, compressed. 



3. T. coralloides, Fr. (petal-like Thelephora) ; erect dark in 

 ago, branches striate dilated, tips fimbriat<'d white. Fr. Syst, 

 Myc. V. 1. p. 432. — Clavaria coriacca, Jhdl. t. 452. f. 2. — 

 Clavaria anthorcjihala, Part. n. 10G3 (in part) — Merisma fini- 

 hriatnm, Chcv. Ft. Par. \.p. 104. 



Woods, on the ground. King's Clifle, Norths, Ixev. M. J. Berkeley. 

 —From tile same j)oint spring many erect often continent pale stews, 

 sprcniling upwards into greyish or purplish-brown, strongly streaked 

 inditrhi's, disposed l'rc<|uentiy like tlie petals of a pink, their apices 

 tlilated, pale and generally fimbriated. Smell scarcely any, either before 

 or after gathering. Purton's plant, from specimens now before mc, 

 agrees exactly with my own, and ditfers from every stale that I have 

 ever seen of TheUyhura pidmatn. 



4. T. palmdta, Scop, (palmate Thelephora); erect purple- 



