MEBULIUS 623 



arid, gradually decaying from the centre to the margin, and in the folds 

 being reticulated to the margin. Rare. 



2103. M. aureus Fr. Fl. Dan. t. 2027, fig. 2. Aureus, golden. 

 R. 2-5-5 cm., golden yellow, resupinate, effused, or effuso-reflexed, 



easily separable; margin concolorous, thin, villose. Folds golden yellow, 

 ochraceous orange to russet when dried, plicato-porous, gyroso-crisped. 

 Flesh membranaceous, soft, thin. Spores "yellowish in mass, cylin- 

 dric, 3-4-5 x 1-5-2/i. Cystidia none. Hyphae loosely interwoven, 

 nodose-septate, 2-5-4/x in diam." Burt. Pine wood, leaves, and cones. 

 Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



ft Resupinate. 



2104. M. terrestris (Peck) Burt. (= Merulius lacrymans var. terrestris 

 Peck, non Ferry.) Terrestris, pertaining to the earth. 



R. 3-10 cm., bright ferruginous, drying amber brown, resupinate, 

 widely effused, membranaceous; margin whitish. Folds concolorous, 

 gyrose, with intermediate, shallow, labyrinthiform depressions. Flesh 

 yellowish, membranaceous, thin. Spores brownish in the mass, yellow 

 under the microscope, broadly elliptical, with often a basal apiculus, 

 7-9 x 4-5-6 ju.. "Basal hyphae loosely interwoven, thick walled, rigid, 

 4-5-6 IJL in diam., nodose-septate, aniline-yellow under the microscope; 

 subhymenial hyphae thin walled, often collapsed, 3fi in diam. Cys- 

 tidia none" Burt. On bare soil. July Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



2105. M. papyraceus Fr. Trairvpos, the paper reed. 

 R. 5-20 cm., umber ferruginous, resupinate, widely effused, dry, 



glabrous; margin paler. Folds concolorous, reticulato-porous ; pores 

 equal, dilated. Flesh of the consistence of paper, tough. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, elliptical, 8-10 x 6-7 p,, 1-2-guttulate. Old beams amongst 

 grass. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2106. M. squalidus Fr. Squalidus, dirty. 

 R. 7-30 cm., hyaline flesh colour, resupinate, effused, loosely adnate, 



adpressedly fibrillose and becoming cinereous on the underside, smooth; 

 margin white, membranaceous. Folds flesh colour, becoming suboliva- 

 ceous, sinuoso-porous. Flesh membranaceous, soft, loose, watery. 

 Spores ferruginous. Hornbeam posts, and worked wood. Feb. Rare. 



2107. M. himantioides Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 193, fig. 1. 



t/tta?, leather thong; etSo9, like. 



R. 2-5 cm., lilac, becoming raw umber when dried, resupinate, 

 effused, separable, fibrillosely silky beneath; margin whitish, byssoid. 

 Folds dingy yellow, then subolivaceous, porous, then gyrose. Flesh 

 very soft, silky, thin. Spores "honey yellow under the microscope, 



