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incised, often broken up into wedge-shaped, imbricate branches, or 

 segments, fibrillosely torn, often radiately rugose, or striate, obsoletely 

 zoned when moist. St. -5-1 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, simple, or 

 branched, equal, villose. Hymenium inferior, even. Flesh concolorous, 

 or paler, subcoriaceous. Spores purple in the mass, pale umber under 

 the microscope, verrucose, globose, 6-7 /A. Woods, especially under 

 conifers. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



II. Dimidiate, horizontal, subsessile, or effuso-reflexed. 



2216. P. intybacea (Pers.) Pat. (= Thelephora intybacea (Pers.) Fr.) 

 Bull. Champ. Fr. t. 278, as Thelephora intybacea. 



evrvftov, chicory. 



R. 2 4 cm., whitish, then rufous ferruginous, at length fuliginous', 

 margin whitish fimbriate at first, then concolorous, dimidiate, con- 

 fluent, imbricate, fibrous, the fibrils often agglutinated into adpressed, 

 adnate squamules; margin dilated. St. short, sublateral, often con- 

 fluent. Hymenium concolorous, inferior, papillose. Flesh firm, fibril- 

 lose, 1 mm. thick. Spores deep ochraceous, verrucosely echinulate, 

 subglobose, or elliptical, 7-9 x 6-7 /it, with a large central gutta. 

 Caespitose. Pine wood, and bare soil. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2217. P. terrestris (Ehrh.) Big. & Quill. (= Thelephora terrestris 

 (Ehrh.) Fr. ; Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Fr.) Holland, Champ, 

 t. 101, no. 224. Terrestris, pertaining to the earth. 



R. 35 cm., ferruginous fuscous, or fuscous, often becoming black 

 with age, dimidiate, sessile, or effuso-reflexed, laterally confluent, 

 often imbricate, fibrillosely scaly, strigose ; margin fimbriate, laciniate. 

 Hymenium/wscows, or pale fawn, inferior, papillose. Flesh concolorous, 

 coriaceous, fibrillose, soft, 1 mm. thick. Spores fuscous, verrucose, 

 angularly globose, 8-9 x 6-8/x. Woods, and heaths. July Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 

 P. biennis (Fr.) Big. & Guill. = Hypochnus umbrinus (Fr.) Quel. 



2218. P. atra (Weinm.) Rea. (= Thelephora atra Weinm.) 



Atra, black. 



P. 58 cm., black, becoming fuliginous, imbricate, arising from a 

 tuberous base, deformed, somewhat lobed, sessile, attenuated at the 

 base; margin at first white, fimbriate. Hymenium black, white 

 pruinose, smooth, setulose. Caespitose. Dead logs. Rare. 



2219. P. mollissima (Pers.) Rea. (= Thelephora mollissima (Pers.) 

 Fr.; Phylacteria spiculosa (Fr.) Bourd. & Maire.) Berk. Outl. 

 Brit. Fung. t. 17, fig. 5, as Thelephora mollissima. 



Mollissima, very soft. 



R. 2-4 cm., whitish, becoming brownish, broadly effused, con- 

 tinuous, or effuso-reflexed, forming flaps, subtomentose. Hymenium 



