624 MERULIUS. PHLEBIA 



elliptical, 9-10 x 6/*. Basal hyphae narrow, few, honey yellow, up 

 to 6-7 /A in diam., not incrusted; subhymenial hyphae, loosely inter- 

 woven, hyaline, 4ju, in diam." Burt. Dead conifer and cherry wood. 

 Sept. Dec. Rare. 



2108. M. fugax Fr. (= Merulius molluscus Fr. sec. Burt; Merulius 

 laeticolor Berk. sec. Romell.) - Fr. Icon. t. 193, fig. 2, as Merulius 

 molluscus Fr. Fugax, fleeting. 



R. 3-10 cm., white, or yellowish, resupinate, effused ; margin whitish, 

 byssoid. Folds flesh colour, drying cream colour, pinkish buff, with or 

 without a tinge of orange, or dark brown, gyroso-plicate. Flesh mem- 

 branaceous, very soft, thin. Spores yellowish, or hyaline, broadly 

 elliptical, 4-5 x 3-4/i. Cystidia none. "Hyphae loosely interwoven, 

 long-celled, nodose-septate, 3-4/z in diam., sparingly and coarsely 

 granule-incrusted towards the substratum" Burt. Coniferous wood, 

 and branches. Sept. Feb. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 M. molluscus Fr. = Merulius fugax Fr. 



2109. M. pinastri (Fr.) Burt. (= Hydnum pinastri Fr. ; Hydnum sordi- 

 dum Weinm. sec. Burt.) Pinastri, of pines. 



R. 2-20 cm., pinnard yellow, then olive ochre, becoming darker, and 

 finally Dresden brown to raw-umber, resupinate, effused, loosely at- 

 tached to the substratum, whitish and tomentose beneath ; mycelium 

 often reddish, or deep brownish vinaceous; margin whitish, 01 flesh pink. 

 Hymenium for a long time smooth, at length raised in shallow folds 

 forming irregular, angular pores, or reticulations, -5-1-5 mm. in diam., 

 or prolonged into subulate, or Irpex-like teeth. Spores pale ochraceous 

 in the mass, yellow brown, broadly ovoid to subglobose, 5-7 x 4-5 \L, 

 Cystidia none. Hyphae hyaline, 2-5/A in diam., loosely interwoven, 

 nodose-septate. Pine wood and leaves, and cedar chips. Sept. Nov. 

 Rare. 



Phlebia Fr. 

 (<XeT/r, a vein.) 



Receptacle waxy, or subgelatinous, becoming cartilaginous when 

 dry, erect, or resupinate and effused. Hymenium from the first 

 covering radiating, obtuse wrinkles or veins, continuous or broken 

 up into tubercles, rarely smooth, fertile on the edge. Spores white, 

 elliptical, reniform, oblong, or cylindrical, smooth. Cystidia none. 

 Growing on wood, rarely on the ground. 



2110. P. merismoides Fr. (= Phlebia aurantiaca (Sow.) Karst. sec. 

 Pat. ; Phlebia radiata Fr. ; Phlebia contorta Fr.) Grev. Scot. Crypt. 

 Fl. t. 280. Merisma, an old genus of Thelephora; elSos, like. 



R. 2-5-9 cm., flesh colour, then livid, widely effused, smooth, or 

 uneven, villose and white beneath', margin orange, strigose. Wrinkles 



