172 FUNGI OF EAST DORSET. 



P. ochracea (Fr.) Mass. (Lat., ochre -coloured). 



On decaying bark and wood ; not uncommon. 

 Edmondsham Rectory orchard. Copse adjoining 

 Edmondsham Park. Furze Common Copse. Birches 

 Copse, near Sutton Holms. Belt N. side of St. 

 Giles' Park. 



Genus 7. SOPPITTIELLA Mass. (Named after H. T. 

 Soppitl, a Yorkshire mycologist.) Formerly included 

 in Thelephora, from which the separated species 

 differ in being soft and sub-gelatinous, &c. 

 S. sebacea Mass. (Lat., tallowy). 



On stumps, twigs, leaves, &c. ; encrusting what 

 it covers with irregular stalactitic or tuberculose 

 waxy patches ; white, fleshy when growing ; rare. 

 Spreading from a stump and encrusting ivy leaves 

 and moss in its progress, in the belt on the N. side 

 of St. Giles' Park near Creech Hill. 



Genus 8. CYPHELLA Fr. (Gr. plural of kuphellon, a cup, 



the shape of the plants). 



C. muscigena Fr. (Lat., moss-born, growing from 

 mosses). 



Growing on various mosses ; uncommon. 

 Edmondsham. Border of belt by St. Giles' Park. 



Family 5. CLAVARIEAE Corda. (" Club and 

 Coral Fungi.") 



Spore-surface even, covering the whole of the erect fungus. 



Genus 1. SPARASSIS Fr. (Gr., sparasso, to tear to pieces, 

 from its laciniate character). Forms a large tuft 

 of many compressed branches, after the fashion of 

 a cauliflower or sponge. 

 S. crispa (Wulf) Fr. (Lat., curled). 



On or near pine -stumps in woods ; said to be 

 frequent, but quite uncommon in our district, at 



