Cincinnati Society of Natural History . 



THE MYCOLOGIC FLORA OF THE MIAMI VALLEY, 



OHIO. 



By a. p. Morgan. 



(Read December 6th, 1887.) 



Continued from Vol. X., p. 18. 



Class I. — Hymenomycetes. 



Order IV. — Thelephorei. 



Hymenium inferior or amphigenous, coriaceous or waxy, even, 

 rarely costate or papillose. Sporophores 4-spored, rarely i-spored. 



TABLE OF GENERA OF THELEPHOREL 



A. Groiving on the ground and mostly stipitate. 



1. Craterellus. Pileus entire, stipitate, fleshy or sub- 

 membranaceous. 



2. Thelephora. Pileus coriaceous, stipitate or sessile. 



3. Lachnocladium. Pileus repeatedly branched, the 

 branches filiform. 



B. Sessile or resupinate on trunks and branches of trees. 



4. Stereum. Pileus coriaceous, effuso-reflexed ; hymenium 

 glabrous. 



5. HvMENOCHiETE. Pileus effuso-reflexed or resupinate ; 

 hymenium setulose. 



6. CoRTiciUM. Wholly resupinate ; the hymenium not 



setulose. 



C. Minute pezizoid plants, sub sessile. 



7. Cvphella. Sub-membranaceous, cup-shaped. 



Genus I. — Craterellus, Fr. 

 Hymenium waxy-membranaceous, distinct but adnate to the 

 hymenophore, [definitely inferior, contiguous, glabrous, even or 

 rugose ; spores white. 



Fungi growing on the ground, fleshy or membranaceous, fur- 

 nished with an entire pileus, stipitate; allied to the Cantharelli. 

 a. Tubceform, pervious to the base of the stipe. 

 I. C. lutescens, Pers. Pileus submembranaceous, tubteform, 

 soon pervious, undulate, flocculose, fuscous. Stipe hollow, glab- 



