SPARASSIS. STEREUM 661 



sembling a cauliflower; branches 2-55 cm., broad, intricate, ribbon- 

 like, apex tinged yellowish, crisped, and slightly zoned. St. whitish, 

 becoming blackish with age, stout, rooting. Flesh whitish, or yellowish, 

 fleshy, brittle. Spores pale ochraceous in the mass, hyaline under the 

 microscope, subglobose, or elliptical, 6-7 fj, in diam., or 6 x 4/i, 1-2- 

 guttulate ; basidia with 2^1-sterigmata. Smell very pleasant, of anise. 

 Taste agreeable. Edible. Coniferous woods. Aug. Nov. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2244. S. laminosa Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 13. 



Laminosa, having plates. 



R. 10-60 cm., yellowish straw colour, very much branched; branches 

 laminar, patent, more lax, and less dense than those of S. crispa. St. 

 whitish, becoming discoloured with age, stout, rooting. Flesh yellowish, 

 fleshy, brittle. Spores pale ochraceous in the mass, hyaline under the 

 microscope, globose, S/A, with granular contents. Smell pleasant. 

 Taste agreeable. Edible. Mixed woods, especially near oaks. Sept. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



Stereum (Pers.) Massee (= Thelephora (Ehrh.) Fr. pp.). 

 (a-repeov, firm.) 



Receptacle coriaceous, pileate, stipitate, or sessile, infundibuliform, 

 dimidiate, resupinate, or effuso-reflexed. Stem central, lateral, or 

 none. Hymenium inferior, with an intermediate layer, smooth, rarely 

 rugulose, or ribbed, sometimes setulose, pubescent, or velvety. Flesh 

 pale. Spores white, oval, elliptical, globose, subglobose, cylindrical, 

 oblong, or oblong elliptic; smooth, or granular; basidia with 2-4- 

 sterigmata. Cystidia hyaline, rarely coloured in nos. 2261 and 2262, 

 present, or absent. Annual, or perennial. Growing on wood, or on 

 the ground. 



I. R. infundibuliform. St. central. 



2245. S. Sowerbeii (B. & Br.) Massee. (= Thelephora Sowerbeii B. <fe 

 Br. ; Podoscypha Sowerbeji (B. & Br.) Pat. ; Stereum pallidum 

 (Pers.) Lloyd sec. Burt. ; Thelephora vitellina Plowr.) Rolland, 

 Champ, t. 101, no. 225, as Podoscypha Sowerbeji. 



James Sowerby, the well-known botanical illustrator. 

 R. 1 2-5 cm., snow white, becoming yellow, or pale yellow, infundi- 

 buliform, fiabelliform, or spathulate, uneven; margin incised, often 

 crenate. St. 1-2-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, gradually expanding 

 into the p., often confluent, smooth, or wrinkled. Hymenium con- 

 colorous, smooth, or rugulose. Flesh yellowish, fleshy coriaceous, thin. 

 Spores white, oval, 3 x 2/*. Under pine bark, and on the ground. 

 Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



