CALDESIELLA. PHYLACTERIA 651 



Caldesiella Sacc. (=Hydnum (Linn.) Fr.). 

 (L. Caldesi, an Italian botanist.) 



Receptacle fioccose, soft, resupinate. Spines conical, soft, villose, 

 fimbriate at the apex. Spores coloured, globose, verrucose, or echinulate; 

 basidia clavate, with 2 4-sterigmata. Growing on wood. 



2209. C. crinalis (Fr.) Bourd. & Galz. (= Hydnum crinale Fr.; 

 Hydnum ferrugineum Auct. pi. non Fr. nee Karst. ; Odontia 

 barba-Jovis Pat. Tab. Anal. f. 247; Caldesiella ferruginosa Sacc. 

 sec. Bres., as Odontia crinalis (Fr.) Bres.) Pers. Myc. Eur. n, 

 t. 17, fig. 3, as Hydnum castaneum Pers. var. fuscum Pers. 



Crinalis, hairy. 



R. 510 cm., tawny ferruginous, effused, separable, tomentose. Spines 

 concolorous, subulate, conical, acute, straight, or oblique, often some- 

 what compressed, tomentose, crowded. Flesh concolorous, floccose, lax. 

 Spores deep brown, echinulate, globose, 8-9 //,. Decayed wood espe- 

 cially under the bark. July Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2210. C. italica Sacc. Italica, Italian. 

 R. 2-10 cm., fuliginous, widely effused, incrusting, resupinate. 



Spines concolorous, becoming olivaceous with the snuff-coloured spores, 

 1-1'5 mm. long, '5-1 mm. thick, cylindrical, obtuse, often com- 

 pressed, crowded, pruinose. Flesh concolorous, floccose, thick. Spores 

 snuff-coloured in the mass, olivaceous-hyaline under the microscope, 

 obtusely verrucose, angularly globose, 8-9 x 8/4 ; basidia clavate with 

 2 4-sterigmata. Basal hyphae concolorous, thick walled, 6 8/j, in 

 diam., septate, with clamp connections. Birch stumps. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2211. C. viridis (A. & S.) Pat. (= Hydnum viride (A. & S.) Fr.) Boud. 

 Icon. t. 170, as Odontia viridis (A. & S.) Quel. Viridis, green. 



R. 525 cm., white, then indigo blue, soon greenish, and at length 

 yellowish, broadly effused, tomentose; margin white, membranaceous, 

 thin. Spines indigo blue, then greenish, 12 mm. long, cylindrical, 

 irregular, obtusely divided at the apex, often crowned with white 

 hairs. Flesh concolorous, fioccose, thin. Spores indigo blue, verrucose, 

 globose, 4-5/A. Rotten wood. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Phylacteria (Pers.) Pat. (= Thelephora (Ehrh.) Fr. p.p.). 



((f)v\aKTr)piov, an amulet.) 



Receptacle fibrous, or coriaceous, pileate, stipitate, sessile, or re- 

 supinate, entire, or laciniate, destitute of a pellicle. Stem central, 

 lateral, or none, confluent with the pileus. Flesh coloured. Hymenium 

 inferior or amphigenous, smooth, faintly ribbed, or papillose. Spores 

 coloured, elliptical, globose, subglobose, or angular, verrucose, or 



