HTMENOMYCETES. 



the appearance of iS. tahacinum, from which species it is dis- 

 tinguished by a firmer texture, smooth hymenium, and white 

 inner substance. 



11 S. SANGDiNOLENTUM. Alb. and Scliw. 



Coriaceous, thin, effused, narrowly reflexed, disc sericeous, 

 pale ; hymenium smooth, colour of willow-wood, blood-stained 

 when cut or torn. On fallen fir branches, Halsnead, Stourton. 



12 S. EUBiGiNOstJM. Sclirad. 



Imbricated, rigid, reddish brown, many growing together and 

 into each other ; while j^oung, resupinate ; hymenium sub- 

 velvety, rubiginose, margin pale ; when old, reflexed, the re- 

 flexed portion more or less zoned, dingy and blackish. The 

 above, which is taken from Dr. Grevillc, is a very exact de- 

 scription of the plant as I have found it. On oak, Eastham. 

 Rainhill. 



13 S. AVELLANUM. Fries. 



Coriaceous, hard, broadly efFiised ; reflexed disc, narrow, 

 villous, chestnut brown ; hymenium pruinose or glabrous, 

 colour of a ripe hazel-nut, more or less blood-stained when 

 bruised. On stumps, Tarbock, &c. 



14 S. EUFUM. Pers. 



Cartilaginous, roundish, or confluent and oblong, almost 

 entirely resupinate ; purplish grey from the bloom which 

 covers the tuberculated, rufcscent hymenium. On the wood 

 of fallen branches. Halsnead. Eastham. 



8ub-geni(s RESUPINATUS. 



15 S. FULiGiNOSUM. Fries. 



Coriaceous, effused, somewhat orbicular ; hymenium dusky 

 chesnut brown, uneven, smooth, closely beset with short 

 erect spines, exactly as in Dr. Grevillc's plate of Thdephont 

 padi ; margin uneven, pale. Not, as far as I am aware, 

 hitherto recorded as a British species. On a stake from the 

 bottom of a hedge, Eainhill, Nov. 1856. 



Gemts XXIX. CORTICIUM. Fries. 



Sub-genus HIMANTIA. 

 Mycelium and margin white. 

 16 C. GiGANTEUM. Fnes. 



Broadly effused, when moist watery white, when dry paper 

 like, milk white, smooth, margin radiato-strigose. On logs 

 of Scotch fir. Kainhill. 



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