163 FUNGI. [TJiehphora. 



pallid blood-coloured when bruised, margin obtuse free, hy- 

 nienium even at first velvety at length smooth. Fr. SysL Myc, 

 V, l,p, 442. EL V. l.p. 188. 



On bark and wood, especially hasel. Appin, Captain Carmichael. 

 — "Forming large broadly effused patches,of a thick firm corky substance, 

 and of the colour of a ripe hasel-nut. Much resembling T. rugosa, 

 but that, according to Fries, is always smooth in a growing state. 



***** Entirely resupinate. 



19. T. hyssoideSy Pers. (byssoid dark-seeded Thehphora) ; 

 irregularly effused byssoid pale ochraceous at length yellowish- 

 brown in the centre from the sporules. Pers, Syn. p. 577. 

 Er. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 452. El. v. 1. p. 196. 



Spreading in broad patches over Spruce fir leaves, on the ground 

 at Apethorpe, Norths., but probably common in all fir-woods. I^ev. 

 M. J. Berkeley.— \ foot or more broad, at first white, very thin, soft 

 and cottony, but not radiating, with a slight ochraceous tinge in the centre, 

 gradually thickening and becoming more or less tuberculated, at length 

 of a more or less intense yellow-brown from the ejection of the spo- 

 rules. Asci obtuse, projecting beyond the surface of the lujmenixim. 

 Sporules oval, obtuse, yellowish-brown. 



20. T. ccerulea, Schrad. {bright-hlue ThdepJwra); effused 

 confiuent adnate subtomentose bright blue, beset with minute 

 bristles of the same colour. Pers. Myc. Eur. v. I. p. 147. Er. 



El. V. l.p. 202 Auricularia pJwsphorea, Sow. t. 350. Purt. 



Midi. El. n. 1026. — Byssus p/tosphorta, With. v. 4. p. HI. — 

 Co7iferva pkosphorea, Dillw. t. 88. — Dematium violactumy Hook. 

 El. Scot. 2. p. 34. 



On decaying rails, sticks, &c., very common. — At first byssoid, but 

 when fully developed forming a close membrane, following the undula- 

 tions of the wood on which itgrov/s, of a beautiful dark satiny blue, the 

 margin whitish. According to Fries, the hymenium is beset with bristles, 

 perceptible only under a high magnifier. This I have not verified. 



*2l. T. rosea, Pers. (rose-coloured Thelephora) ; effused adnate 

 pruinose rose-coloured when dry beautifully rivulose, circum- 

 ference fringed white. Pers. Syn. p. 375. Er. Syst. Myc. v. 

 l.p. 451. El.v. l.p. 203. 



On rose-branches, &c., King's Cliffe, Norths,, Rev. M. J. Berkeley. --kt 

 first forming small scattered patches, which at length become more or 

 less confluent ; the cobweb-like /nn^e gradually obsolete. 



22. T. minidta, Berk, (scarlet Thelephora) ; broadly effused 

 bright-scarlet, at first thin membranaceous, then thicker of a 

 soft cottony substance, margin fibrillose. 



On birch. Appin, Captain Carmichael. Near Glasgow, ^/o^25c7/. 



, This most elegant species differs so much from T. sanguinea, Fr., in 



being most highly coloured where expensed to light, while in the portions 

 to which the light has not free access it is nearly white, and in not 

 tinging the wood whereon it grows with its own bright hue, that an in- 

 spection of specimens renders it almost impossible to consider it the same. 



