i) ~  CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Merulius. 
1 diameter at the top. Ixner surface dark dirty brown, 
smooth like vellum. Outer surface decorated with rising branchy 
veins, covered with a bloomy down or powder. Substance tough 
and elastic. Bor. as 
_ Pexixa cornucopioides. Bolton. Bulliard. Oeder.—E/vella car- 
nucopia and punctata. Scheffer. Ray Syn. p. 20. 2. 17. os 
Grows single or in clusters, in dry woods. 
infundibuli-M. (Borr.) Stem funnel-shaped, hollow, expanding at 
formis, _— _the top Jikea hollow pileus: gill-like veins branched, 
_~. Silvery grey.” 
Bolt. 34—Bull. 208, 465. 2, differ but little—( Not Bull. 473, 
nor Battar. 23. c.Vaill. xi. 10, is M. Cantharellus.)~ 
Abbot. FID Beds po 3245 > 
_Stem about 2 inches from the root to the gills, often flatted, 
or fluted ; hollow quite from the root, and running insensibly 
into the pileus, as the tube of a Convolvulus does into its border. 
Gills branched like nerves, of the same substance with the plant. 
— whole plant is tough, elastic, of a greyish mouse-colour. 
Bors ° 3 . 
Ag. infundibuliformis. Bout.—Ag. cornucopioides. BULLIARD. 
; - Lee-bank-Shroggs near Halifax, and several other places. 
~ muscig’e- M. Stem lateral, thick, short; pileus semi-circular, pale 
nus, brown; gills branched. 
Bull. 288, and 498.1. 
Srem solid, pale brown, tapering downwards, near 3 of an inch 
high, and about half as thick. - x 
Piigus nearly semi-circular, smooth, pale grey brown, hollowed 
and uneven, sometimes marked with concentric lines, + 
mbAVEN Over wt Le Lays : 
Gixts or Veins, branched, anastomosing, resembling those of 
the M, cornucopioides, : 
Ag. muscigenus. Bulliard 288,—Helwella dimidiata. ib. 498. 
2,—See M. membranaceus, 
This plant is found-in great plenty in the months of August 
and September, growing on the Hypnum sericeum, and I never 
found it on any other moss, BuLirarp. 25 
Var. By Stemless, circular, white, 
About + an inch diameter; substance very thin, 
| On moss in Packington Park, Autumn. 
a (3) Stemless. 
 membrana’-M, Sitting, membranaceous, smooth, lobed, curled at the 
bene edge; veins on the under side branched, 
October, 1786. 
