680 CORTICIUM 



sterigmata, 5-9/u, long. Hyphae thin walled, 2-3-5/x in diam., with 

 scattered clamp connections; superior hyphae dense, flexuose, co- 

 herent and collapsing" Bourd. & Galz. Stumps, and fallen branches. 

 Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2306. C. lividmn (Pers.) Fr. (= Grandinia ocellata Fr. sec. Bres.) 



Lividum, black and blue. 



R. 213 cm., bluish grey, hyaline grey, then tinged reddish, or bluish, 

 widely effused, agglutinated; margin similar, or white fimbriate and 

 fugacious. Hymeniurn concolorous, subviscid when moist, pruinose, 

 smooth, tubercular, or radiately wrinkled. Flesh paler, subgelatinous, 

 then horny, dense. Spores white, oblong elliptical, 3-5-5 x 2-3/z,, or 

 "elongate oblong, depressed on one side, 4-5 x 1-5-1-75/z,; basidia 

 15-25-34 x 3-4-5/-1, with 2-4 straight sterigmata, 3fi long. Basal 

 hyphae thick walled, gelatinous, 3-5/u, in diam., clamp connections 

 rare; superior hyphae 2-3 /u, in diam., rarely distinct" Bourd. & Galz. 

 Dead birch, and elm. Oct. June. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2307. C. seriate Fr. Seriale, in series. 

 R. 5-10 cm., pale tan, isabelline, or greenish, becoming ochraceous, 



tawny, brick red, chocolate, greenish cinereous, or bluish vinous, more 

 rarely livid brown when dry, longitudinally effused, agglutinated, often 

 in series, waxy, rarely shining when dry; margin white, narrow, 

 pubescent. Hymenium concolorous, smooth, or papillose, pruinose, 

 very much cracked when dry. Flesh waxy, rigid, dense. Spores white, 

 "narrowly oblong, depressed on the side, 4-7 x 2-5-3 /i; basidia 15- 

 21 x 3-4-5/*, without cystidioles, or 12-27-40 x 3-4-5/n, with 2-4 

 straight sterigmata, 5-7 /x long, and accompanied with numerous 

 fusiform, or subulate cystidioles, 3-4-5/u, in diam., and projecting 

 10-35 /it. Hyphae more or less agglutinated, with walls thin or slightly 

 thickened, 2-5 /a in diam., with clamp connections" Bourd. & Galz. 

 Pine wood. Rare. 



2308. C. ochraceum (Fr.) Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 170, fig. 1. 



0)^/309, pale. 



R. 3-10 cm., pale, or cream colour, then ochraceous, broadly effused, 

 very adnate, waxy; margin white, pruinose, soon similar. Hymenium 

 concolorous, papillose or tubercular, very much cracked when dry. Flesh 

 white, waxy, then firm, agglutinated, thick. Spores white, elliptical, 

 apiculate at the base, 5-6 x 3-4 /u,; "basidia 30-45 x 4-7 p, with 2-4 

 straight sterigmata, 3-^4/x, long. Hyphae with thin or slightly thick- 

 ened walls, 3-3-5 fj. in diam., agglutinated, distinct only at the base" 

 Bourd. & Galz. Conifer trunks, and logs. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



