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Very variable, at first resupinate, at length generally reflexed, 

 often imbricated. Pileus more or less zoned, strigose, tough, 

 buff, yellowish, or greenish. Hymenium smooth, buff (often 

 with a purplish shade), sometimes cinereous. Spores small, 

 whitish, oval-oblong. 



A common species, particularly on dead Oak and Birch. In 

 its young state, of a beautiful orange-buff colour. 



Thelephora sanguinolenta, a. and S. Silky blood-stained 

 Thelephora. Dimidiate or reflexed, blood-coloured when bruised, 

 silky, pale ; beneath smooth, greyish-brown. 



On dead Eirs and Larches, etc. ; common ; perennial. 



At first resupinate and circular, at length dimidiate or reflexed, 

 silky or almost strigose, zoned, pale-brownish. Hymenium 

 smooth, greyish-brown, becoming blood-red (or rather, giving 

 forth a blood-red juice) when scratched or bruised. 



E/cmarkable for the property it has (in common with some 

 other species) of becoming bloody when touched. 



Thelephora comedens, Nees. Immersed Thelephora. Effused, 

 growing beneath the bark of trees, at length bursting forth, thin, 

 smooth, yellowish flesh-colour, even, at length cracked. 



On dry decayed branches of various trees ; very common. 



Distinguishable by its peculiar mode of growth. It originates 

 beneath the bark, which gradually peels off, and leaves it exposed, 

 forming a revolute margin to it. 



A very common Thelephora, especially on branches of Oak, 

 and often extending 2 or 3 feet in length. It is only seen in 

 perfection in moist weather, as it withers and dries up in dry. 



5. CLAVABIJEI. 



Fungi clavate, or variously branched, rarely lobed or gelati- 

 nous. A small suborder, containing those Hymenomycetous 

 Fungi which are more or less club-shaped, or branched. The 

 principal genus is Clavaria, the character of which is as follows : — 



Clavaria. 



E-eceptacle erect, more or less cylindrical, homogeneous, con- 

 fluent with the stem. Hymenium occupying the whole surface. 



Clavaria pratensis, Pers. Meadow Clavaria. Tufted, yellow, 

 stem slender ; branches short, geniculate, divaricate ; branchlets 

 obtuse, subfastigiate. 



