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purplish flesh colour, simple, straight, or tubercular, crowded. Flesh 

 concolorous, subgelatinous, then membranaceous. Spores white, cylin- 

 drical, somewhat curved, 4-5 x 1-5-2/u,. Stumps, branches, and logs. 

 Sept. Feb. Common, (v.v.) 



2111. P. radiata Fr. (= Phlebia aumntiaca (Sow.) Karst. sec. Pat.) 



Radiata, rayed. 



R 2-5-20 cm., red flesh colour, or almost orange, somewhat round, 

 effused, often confluent, equal, smooth on both sides; margin radiately 

 toothed. Wrinkles purplish flesh colour, straight, radiating in rows. 

 Flesh paler, membranaceous, tough, thin. Spores white, cylindrical, 

 slightly curved, 46 x 1-2 /A. Dead wood, branches, and logs, espe- 

 cially alder. July April. Common, (v.v.) 



2112. P. erecta Rea. Erecta, upright. 

 R. 1-3 cm., bright flesh colour, becoming blackish, clavate, erect, 



effused ; clubs cylindrical, 2-3 mm. thick, apex obtuse, or acute, white 

 fioccose at base, smooth. Flesh concolorous, or paler, waxy. Spores 

 white, reniform, 4-5 x 2-3|U, 2-guttulate. Basidia with 4-sterigmata. 

 Burnt ground amongst mosses. Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2113. P. contorta Fr. (= Phlebia aurantiaca (Sow.) Karst. sec. Pat.) 



Contorta, twisted. 



R. 2-5-10 cm., rufous, then fuscous, widely effused, smooth on both 

 sides; margin indeterminate. Wrinkles concolorous, here and there con- 

 glomerated, branched, subflexuose, irregularly arranged. Flesh mem- 

 branaceous, firm. Spores white, oblong, 5-6 x 3p, bi-guttulate. Dead 

 wood, and fallen branches. Sept. Dec. Uncommon. 

 P. vaga Fr. = Hypochnus fumosus Fr. 



2114. P. albida Fr. Albida, whitish 

 R. 2-4 cm., white, orbicular, effused, becoming confluent, adnate ; 



margin determinate, becoming slightly free. Wrinkles white, simple, 

 elevated, irregularly dispersed. Flesh white, waxy coriaceous, then 

 cartilaginous. Spores white, elliptical, obtuse at both ends, 4-5 x 

 2-5-3/u, 1-2-guttulate. Fallen trunks. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



2115. P. lirellosa (Pers.) B. & Br. Pers. Myc. Eur. n, t. 17, fig. 2, as^. 

 Daedalea lirellosa Pers. Lirellosa, with little ridges. 



R. 2-5-5 cm., umber grey, resupinate; margin free. Wrinkles very 

 small, linear, thin, straight, branched, or anastomosing to form pores. 

 Flesh thin. Wood, and branches, especially black poplar. Rare. 



Plicatura Peck (= Trogia Fr. p.p.). 



(Plicatus, folded; ovpd, tail.) 



Pileus spongy coriaceous, soft, flaccid, dimidiate, sessile, or sub- 

 stipitate. Hymenium covering obtuse veins, gill-like in front, crisped 

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