660 ALDBIDGEA. PTYCHOGASTEB. SPARASSIS 



Aldridgea Massee. 

 (Miss Emily Aldridge.) 



Keceptacle subgelatinous, becoming cartilaginous when dry, re- 

 supinate, effused. Hymenium smooth, even. Spores coloured, ellip- 

 tical, smooth; basidia with 4-sterigmata. Growing on wood. 



2241. A. gelatinosa Massee. Massee, Brit. Fung. Fl. i, figs. 20 and 21, 

 p. 97. Gelatinosa, jelly-like. 



R. 5-13 cm., pallid, broadly effused; margin determinate. Hy- 

 menium purple brown, smooth, even. Flesh subgelatinous, then car- 

 tilaginous, or rigid and collapsed when dry. Spores "olive, broadly 

 elliptical, obliquely apiculate, 10 x 6-7 p," Massee. Sawdust. Rare. 



[Ptychogaster Corda.] 

 (TTTV, a fold; yaa'Tijp, belly.) 



Receptacle fleshy, or somewhat corky, round, or cushion-shaped, 

 producing conidia and chlamydospores. Cystidia present, or absent. 

 Growing on wood, or incrusting plants. 



2242. P. albus Cda. Albus, white. 

 R. 2-15 cm., white, becoming brownish, globose, obconic, or pul- 



vinate, soft, shaggy, or filamentous; internally white, becoming 

 brownish, formed of many concentric layers. Conidia colourless, long, 

 oval. Chlamydospores "brownish, elliptic, or oblong, 6/u, long" 

 Henn. Dead wood and branches. Aug. Feb. Common, (v.v.) 



6. THELEPHORACEAE. 



Hymenium spread over a smooth, rugose, or ribbed surface, 

 either resting upon an intermediate layer of hyphae running longi- 

 tudinally between it and the mycelium, or seated directly upon the 

 mycelium. 



1. Hymenium separated from the mycelium by an 

 intermediate layer of hyphae. 



Sparassis Fr. 



(ar-jrapaa-a-ca, I tear in pieces.) 



Receptacle fleshy, erect, much branched; branches flattened in a 

 lamellar, or plate-like manner, more or less confluent. Hymenium 

 smooth, inferior. Spores white, or yellowish, ovoid, elliptical, globose, 

 or subglobose; smooth; basidia with 2-4-sterigmata. Cystidia none. 

 Mycelium cord-like, often attached to the roots of trees. Growing on 

 the ground. 



2243. S. crispa (Wulf.) Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 102, no. 229. 



Crispa, curled. 

 R. 10-60 cm., whitish, or pale ochraceous, very much branched, re- 



