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echinulate; basidia with 2-^t-sterigmata. Cystidia none. Growing on 

 the ground, or on wood. 



I. Erect with usually a central st. 



*P. divided into very narrow, branching, flattened, 



or cylindrical divisions. 



2212. P. palmate (Scop.) Pat. (= Thelephora palmata (Scop.) Fr.) 

 Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 46, as Merisma foetidum Pers. 



Palmata, having the shape of a hand. 



R. 2-6 cm. high, 1-3 cm. broad, fuscous purple, apex whitish, fim- 

 briate, very much divided into palmate, flattened, subfastigiate, even, 

 flattened branches, dilated upwards. St. 1-1-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., con- 

 color -ous, simple, or branched. Hymenium amphigenous. Flesh con- 

 colorous, coriaceous, soft. Spores fuscous purple in the mass, pale 

 umber under the microscope, echinulate, globose, 8-9 fi. Smell very 

 foetid. Woods, especially of conifers. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2213. P. anthocephala (Bull.) Pat. (= Thelephora anthocephala (Bull.) 

 Fr.) Berk. Outl. Brit. Fung. t. 17, fig. 4, as Thekphora antho- 

 cephala. avOos, a flower; K<f>a\r), head. 



E. 2-5 cm. high, 1-3 cm. broad, somewhat ferruginous, becoming 

 fuscous, apex whitish, fimbriate, divided down to the stem into flaps 

 which are dilated upwards, or into irregular branched erect branches, 

 pubescent. St. -5-1-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., concolorous, simple, equal, 

 villose. Hymenium even. Flesh concolorous, coriaceous, soft. Spores 

 purplish in the mass, pale umber under the microscope, echinulate, 

 globose, or broadly elliptical, 6-8x6ju,, 1-2-guttulate. Woods. Aug. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2214. P. clavularis (Fr.) Big. & Guill. (= Thelephora clavularis Fr.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 196, fig. 3, as Thelephora clavularis Fr. 



Clavularis, a little nail. 



R. 2-5-4 cm. high, 1-3 cm. broad, rufous fuscous, apex whitish, 

 acute, divided down to the st. into round, attenuate, even, delicately 

 pruinose branches. St. -5-1-5 cm. x 1-3 mm., concolorous, base some- 

 what tuberous. Flesh concolorous, coriaceous, soft. Spores reddish 

 purple in the mass, echinulate, subglobose, 6-7 x 6/z,. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**P. more or less infundibuliform, cup-shaped, or flabelliform, 

 often splitting into lobes, or divisions. 



2215. P. caryophyllea (Schaefl.) Pat. (= Thekphora caryophylka 

 (Schaeff.) Fr.) Schaeff. Icon. t. 325, as Helvetia caryophyllea 

 Schaeff. icdpvov, a nut; $>v\\ov, a leaf. 



R. 1-5-4 cm. high, 1-5-5 cm. broad, fuscous purple, becoming wood 

 brown when dried, infundibuliform, cup-shaped; margin lobed, or 



