CORTICIUM 679 



**Hyphae with stout clamp connections at the septa. 



2302. C. subcoronatum von Hoehn. & Litsch. 



Sub, somewhat; coronatum, crowned. 



R. 3-10 cm., white, then cream colour, ochraceous, or pale greenish, 

 tinged with brown when bruised, effused, arachnoid, or slightly mem- 

 branaceous, loosely adnate; margin similar, or minutely reticulated. 

 Hymenium concolorous, loose. Flesh pale, or yellowish, arachnoid, 

 filamentous, loose. Spores white, "almond-shaped, or subnavicular, 

 rarely fusiform, 5-9 x 2-5-4-5/A; basidia 12-18-30 x 5-9 p, with 4-6- 

 sterigmata, 3-5/z long. Hyphae thin walled, 4-14jn in diam., with 

 numerous, stout clamp connections " Bourd. & Galz. Rotten wood, 

 and fallen branches. Sept. March. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



8. Receptacle waxy, dry. Trama indistinct. Spores clavate, fusiform, 

 almond-shaped, or boat-shaped. G-enerally growing on dead, her- 

 baceous plants. 



2303. C. aurora Berk. Aurora, the dawn. 

 R. 3-5 cm., rose colour, becoming pallid, effused, adnate, indeter- 

 minate, waxy, then subpruinose. Hymenium concolorous, waxy, 

 smooth. Flesh spongy, very thin. Spores white, "subclavate, at- 

 tenuated at the base, generally slightly curved, 12-16 x 3-4-5/i, 2-3- 

 guttulate; basidia 24-36 x 12-16/A, with 4 straight sterigmata, 4/z, 

 long" Bourd. & Galz. Dead leaves of Carex, and stems of Juncus. 

 Feb. Rare. 



2304. C. Pearsonii Bourd. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vn, text-fig, i. 

 p. 51. A. A. Pearson, the well-known British mycologist. 



R. 2-10 cm., greyish, adnate, hiding in the crevices of rotten wood. 

 Hymenium concolorous, soon furfuraceous and granular, always beauti- 

 fully reticulated with white crustaceous lines when dry, consisting of 

 basidia and equally long sterile hyphae. Flesh very thin, 20-50/u, 

 thick. Spores hyaline, narrowly clavate, laterally depressed, or sub- 

 arcuate, 4-5-6 x l-5-2(-2-5)/u,; basidia obovate, 9-15 x 5-6 fju, with 

 2-4-sterigmata, up to 6/i long and at length curved. Hyphae hyaline, 

 closely interwoven, rarely distinct, 2-2-5ju, in diam., thin walled, 

 clamp connections sparse. Cracks of a rotten pine trunk. Sept. Oct. 

 Rare. 



9. Receptacle waxy, delicate, closely adnate. 



2305. C. confluens Fr. (? = Radulum molare Fr. sec. Bourd. & Galz.) 



Confiuens, running together. 



R. 18 cm., whitish, effused, indeterminate, agglutinated', margin 

 white, mealy. Hymenium hyaline, white when dry, smooth. Flesh 

 whitish, submembranaceous, thin, loose. Spores white, broadly ellip- 

 tical, or subglobose, 8-10 x 8-9 /z, with a large central gutta, or con- 

 tents granular or cloudy; "basidia 20-50-80 x 6-12 /A, with 2-4- 



