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margin reticulately fibrillose. Tubercles yellowish, irregular, sub- 

 globose, soon collapsing, small, pulverulent, crowded. Flesh yellowish, 

 pelliculose, or membranaceous, waxy, thin. Spores yellowish, sub- 

 globose, or obovate, pointed at the base, 3-5-6 x 3-4//,, 1-guttulate; 

 basidia cylindrical, or clavate, 20-35 x 6-9 /t, with 4 slightly curved 

 sterigmata, 3-7 x l^t. Basal hyphae yellowish, 4-8 /z in diam., with 

 occasional clamp connections, often united to form long branching 

 strands. Fallen branches. May Jan. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2181. G. mutabilis (Pers.) Bourd. & Galz. (= Grandinia granulosa 

 Pers. sec. Bourd. & Maire.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 141, fig. 2, as 

 Odontia olivascens Bres. Mutabilis, changeable. 



R. 25 cm., chalk white, or cream colour, then glaucous, becoming 

 yellowish, tan, or apple green when dried, effused, adnate, dry, friable ; 

 margin subsimilar, or pruinosely pubescent. Granules concolorous, 

 hemispherical, rarely subcylindrical, scattered, or rather crowded. 

 Flesh yellowish, somewhat waxy, then floccose. Spores white, 

 "smooth, rarely rough with a few scattered warts, 3-5-5-5 x 3-5 fj,; 

 basidia 9-12-21 x 4-5-6-8 p., with 2-4-sterigmata, 3-5 ^ long. Hyphae 

 thin walled, 3-7 /u, in diam., with very rare clamp connections" Bourd. 

 & Galz. Dead wood, and branches. Jan. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Spores oblong, or elliptical. 



2182. G. granulosa Fr. Granulosa, granular. 

 R. 2-12 cm., tan colour, broadly effused, closely adnate; margin 



determinate, smooth. Granules concolorous, hemispherical, equal, 

 crowded. Flesh yellowish, waxy, very thin. Spores white, "oblong, 

 6 x 4/i. Hyphae thick walled, 3-5 \L in diam., dichotomously branched" 

 Bourd. & Galz. Dead wood, and branches. Oct. May. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



2183. G. Brinkmannii (Bres.) Bourd. & Galz. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 

 vi, text figs. p. 74. W. Brinkmann. 



R. 25 cm., pure white, becoming yellowish with age, effused, very 

 adnate, indeterminate, pruinose, waxy, then dry and chalky; margin 

 pruinose, or minutely fibrillose. Granules concolorous, minute at first, 

 then wart-like, or forming short spines, crowded. Flesh concolorous, 

 loose, sparse, containing numerous crystals of calcium oxalate. Spores 

 white, elliptical, flattened on one side, 4 x 2/x; basidia clavate, 15 x 

 4/x, with 4-6-8 curved sterigmata, 2-3/u, long. Hyphae indistinct, 

 soon collapsing, 4ju, in diam., septate, with clamp connections. Birch 

 bark. Nov. March. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2184. G. rnucida Fr. (Near Corticium ochraceum Fr. sec. Bres. ex 

 Bourd. & Galz.) Fr. Icon. t. 195, fig. 3. Mucida, mucid. 



R. 2-10 cm., pale yellowish, effused, subinnate, corrugated when 



