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grey, smooth, or slightly wrinkled, pruinose. Spores white ovoid, or 

 elliptical, 8-10 x 6-7 /z, finely punctate. Beech woods, and under 

 beeches. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



Receptacle membranaceous, spathulate, or cup-shaped pendant. 

 Hymenium veined, or smooth. 



Dictyolus Quel. (= Cantharellus p.p.). 



(SiKTvov, network.) 



Pileus membranaceous, spathulate, or cup-shaped and pendant. 

 Hymenium consisting of vein-like gills, anastomosing in a reticulate 

 manner, or almost smooth. Spores white, elliptical, or pip-shaped, 

 smooth. Cystidia none. Growing on wood, or on mosses. 



*P. attached by the apex, resupinate, then reflexed. 



1808. D. retirugus (Bull.) Quel. (= Cantharellus retirugus (Bull.) FT.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 1066, t. 1112, fig. A, as Cantharellus retirugus Fr. 



Rete, a net; ruga, a wrinkle. 



P. 1-2 cm., cinereous, becoming whitish, pellucid, membranaceous, 

 cup-shaped, then expanded, repando-lobed, very tender. Gills grey, 

 or whitish, fold-like, radiating from the centre, connected by veins and 

 reticulated, very tender. Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 5-6 /z. On 

 twigs, and mosses. April June. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1809. D. lobatus (Pers.) Quel. (= Cantharellus lobatus (Pers.) Fr.) 



Lobatus, lobed. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., dark fuscous when moist, becoming pale when dry, 

 pellucid, membranaceous, somewhat round, or reniform, then some- 

 what lateral and lobed, white cottony at the base. Gills concolorous, 

 fold-like, subdistant, distinct, branched. Spores white, broadly ellip- 

 tical, 8-10 x 6-7 /A. On mosses, and Carices in bogs. April Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



D. cyphellaeformis (Berk.) Cost. & Duf. = Pleurotus cyphellaeformis 

 Berk. 



**P. lateral, substipitate, or sessile. 



1810. D. muscigenus (Bull.) Quel. (= Cantharellus muscigenus (Bull.) 

 Fr.) Muscus, moss ; genus, born. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., fuscous when moist, cinereous whitish and zoned when 

 dry, membranaceous, tough, spathulate, slightly undulate when full 

 grown. St. 2-4 x 2-4 mm., lateral, villose at the base, horizontal and 

 continuous with the pileus. Gills concolorous, slightly swollen, 

 diverging from the apex of the stem, distant, branched. Spores white, 

 pip-shaped, 7-9 x 4-6/x, 1-2-guttulate. On mosses. June Nov. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



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