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the latter reticulate with obtuse folds, incompletely porous, at 

 length gyrose and obsoletely dentate. Fungi epixylous. 



a. Pile us sessile, dimidiate. 



1. M. RUBELLUS, Peck. Pilei sessile, confluent and imbri- 

 cated, repand, thin, convex, somewhat tenacious, subtomentose, 

 glabrate, red becoming pale. Hymenium. whitish or reddish ; the 

 folds much branched, porose-anastomosing. Spores while, ellip- 

 tic, .004-005 mm. long. 



In woods on old trunks and branches; not uncommon. Pileus 

 i~3 inches in breadth, or confluently several inches. This is a 

 very beautiful species, never resupinate or effuso-reflexed as the 

 following ones, but always sessile and more or less confluent and 

 imbricated; the color varies from flesh-color to deep red, fading 

 out with age ; the hymenium is commonly an elegant cream-color, 

 but sometimes it is pure white, and occasionally it is tinged with 

 red. This is most likely the M. iiicaniatiis, Schw. , of Lea's Cata- 

 logue, but specimens compared with those of this species in 

 Schweinitz's herbarium were declared to be different ; furthermore, 

 in the N. A. Fungi, Schweinitz insists that his species is incorrectly 

 referred to Merulius, and is a Cantharellus. 



b. Pileus effuso-reflexed, with a determinate border. 



2. M. TREMELLosus, Schrad. Resupinate; then free or re- 

 flexed, fleshy-tremellose, tomentose. white, the margin dentate ra- 

 diate. Folds porose, various in form, reddish. Spores white, a 

 little curved, .004-. 005 mm. long. 



In woods on old trunks and branches; common. Substance 

 cartilaginous-gelatinous , the younger fungus all resupinate, orbicu- 

 lar, pallid, with a radiate and free border ; at length becoming 

 reflexed sometimes to the extent of an inch, and much confluent 

 and even imbricated; in drying, the color changes to alutaceous, 

 and that of the hymenium to brownish. 



3. M. CORIUM, Fr. Resupinate-effused, soft, subpapyraceous ; 

 the border at length free, reflexed, villous underneath, white. Hv- 

 menium reticulate porose, flesh-color or pale alutaceous. 



In woods on bark of Sugar Maple ; rare. My specimens are 

 an inch or more in breadtli and 3-5 inches long, with a very narrow 

 reflexed border ; at first they were nearly white, but in drying have 

 taken on a fleshy tint. In the Handbook of British Fungi, the 

 spores are said to be vivid orange, oval, .006 mm. long. 



