654 PHYLACTERIA. HYPOCHNUS 



fuscous purple, inferior, smooth, even. Flesh concolorous, soft, thin. 

 Spores brownish purple, warted, subglobose, 7-8/n. Woods. Aug. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



III. Resupinate, and incrusting. 



2220. P. spiculosa (Fr.) Bourd. & Maire. (=Thelephora spiculosa (Fr.) 

 Burt.) Pers. Syn. Fung. t. 3, fig. 16, as Merisma penicillatum. 



Spiculosa, having little sharp points. 



R. 2-15 cm., fuscous purple, whitish at the apex of the spicules, 

 effused, incrusting; margin ramoso-spiculose, tips penicillate. Hy- 

 menium concolorous, even or slightly rugose. Flesh floccose, 1 mm. 

 thick. Spores umber, echinulate, irregularly globose, or elliptical, 

 7-9 x 6-7 /i. Running over twigs, and dead leaves. Aug. Nov. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



Hypochnus (Fr.) Karst. (= Tomentella (Pers.) Pat.). 



(UTTO, under; ^1/009, fine down.) 



Receptacle floccose, or felt-like, resupinate, effused. Hymenium 

 smooth, or papillose. Flesh coloured, soft, loose. Spores coloured, 

 rough, verrucose, or echinulate ; globose, subglobose, elliptical, ovoid, 

 or angular; basidia sometimes in scattered clusters, with 2 4-sterig- 

 mata. Growing on wood, mosses, or on the ground. 



2221. H. ferrugineus (Pers.) Fr. Ferrugineus, iron rust colour. 

 R. 2-6 cm., ferruginous, effused, adnate, often suborbicular, dry, 



tomentose, hypochnoid. Hymenium concolorous, "Sudan-brown" 

 when dry. Flesh concolorous, loose, thin. Spores concolorous, echinu- 

 late, subglobose, 7-lOju., with numerous hyaline spines. Basal 

 hyphae, 5-8/x. wide, septa with clamp connections. Decaying wood, 

 and bark of deciduous trees. Sept. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2222. H. umbrinus (Fr.) Quel. (= Thekphora Uennis Fr.) 



Umbrinus, umber. 



R. 3-10 cm., brown, with more or less of a vinaceous tint (varying 

 from drab to fuscous and " Chaetura-drab " of Ridgway), effused, soft, 

 separable; subiculum warm sepia, villose. Hymenium concolorous, 

 membranaceous, compact. Flesh concolorous, dense. Spores fuscous, 

 or dark brown, aculeate, or coarsely verrucose, globose, or subglobose, 

 6-8 JJL, or 6-8 x 5-7 p,; basidia brownish, clavate, with 4-sterigmata. 

 Hyphae brown, thick walled, 4-5/n in diam., septate, without clamp 

 connections. Dead wood. Oct. Feb. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2223. H. fuscus (Pers.) Fr. (= Corticium fuscum (Pers.) Fr.) 



Fuscus, dark. 

 R. 2-10 cm., subfuscous, cinnamon, or brown, somewhat vinaceous 



