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Neither does il agree with Auricularia aurantiaca, Sov/. ( T. bolaris, 

 Pers. jSLjc. Eur.) to which it is referred by Klotzsch in Hook. Herb., 

 that species being described as of a woody texture and becoming horny 

 when well dried, characters wholly at variance with the present plant, 



23. T. aurcmtidca, Sow. {orcuige Thelephora) ; orbicular 

 bright orange somewliat woody, horny when dry, the circuiu- 

 ference finely fibrous and satiny. — Auricularia aurantiaca , Sow. 

 t. 291.— r. bolaris, Pers. Myc. Eur. v. I. p. 138. 



On wood, Sowerby.—^\\\s is referred by Fries to T. sanrjuinea, as 

 a variety, but there is scarcely information enough given by fcowerby to 

 justify such a conclusion. 



24. T.sulphurea, V qvs. {sulphur- colour ed Thelej)hora) ; effused, 

 fibrillose bright sulphur, hymenium somewhat tawny beset with 

 minute white bristles, circumference byssoid. Pers. Si/n. p, 

 579. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1 . p. 452. El. v. 1 . p. 204.— Himantia 

 siilphirea^ Pers. Syn. p. 703. — Mesenierica lutect, Nces, Sysf. f. 

 2S&. B. 



On bark and wood. Appin, Captain Carmichael. King's Cliffe, 

 Norths., Rev. 31. J. BerMcy.—Kx. first consisting of loose distinct 

 byssoid fibres, in which state it frequently remains without produc- 

 ing a true hymenium ; next forming a thin resupinate silky subpulveru- 

 lent stratum with a beautiful byssoid margin; at length, according to 

 Fries, furnished with the true hymenium of a Thelephora and beset 

 with minute white bristles. In Captain Carmichael's specimens the 

 loose fibril.'ce are of a beautiful saffron yellow ; the more advanced stage 

 paler, with a yellowish or cinereous tinge in the centre, the byssoid 

 margin nearly white. 



25. T. carbondria, Bert. {Charcoal Thelephora); at first, 

 punctiform waxy bright orange, at length confluent, circum- 

 ference abrupt delicate white byssoid. 



On charred ground in wet weather. July. Rockingham Forest, 

 Norths., 7?et;. M.J. Berkeley.— M first sight appearing like a small 

 Hat punctiform orange Peziza, with a delicate white subicuhnn ; but a 

 minute inspection shows that it docs not belong to that genus ; these 

 points soon increase in diameter and at length become conllucnt, the 

 hubiculum forming a border to the whole nia>s, and filling up the inter- 

 stices with its bright silvery threads. The asei arc clavate aiul contain 

 several c\\\\n\c spor ales. It is curious that in Dr. Hooker's Herbarium 

 there are specimens of this undescribed species from .luan Fernandez, 

 transmitted by Bertero, and named by him, growing in precisely the 

 same sort of situation, and diflering in nothing but colour, which in his 

 dried specimens is pale tawny. 



2(). T. lictescots, Berlc. {willy Thehphora) ; efl^isod even, 

 following the inerpialities of the matrix, circumference slightly 

 byssoid pale salmon colour, when bridvcn distilling a wliite 

 milky juice. 



On the bark of pine stumps. Clifton, Notts., Rev. M. J. Reruley. 



Thin, spreading for a considerable distance over the bark ami foUow- 



• • • . . 1 • - ubbtancc 



ng all its inequalities, with a scarcely byssoid border, nuicr b 



