PENIOPHORA 687 



4-5/A in diam., sparingly septate, with clamp connections, and some- 

 times swollen up to 6-12/x, in diam., often incrusted with crystals. 

 Smell unpleasant, or slight, of garlic when quite fresh. On the ground, 

 and running over sticks, dead leaves, twigs and herbaceous stems. 

 Jan. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Peniophora Cke. 



(Trrjviov, a shuttle; <^epa), I bear.) 



Eeceptacle waxy, coriaceous, cartilaginous, membranaceous, sub- 

 membranaceous, floccose, or filamentous; resupinate, effused. Hy- 

 menium waxy, floccose, or pulverulent; smooth, rarely tubercular. 

 Spores white, rarely pink, or yellowish, elliptical, subelliptical, glo- 

 bose, subglobose, oboval, clavate, subcylindrical, fusiform, oblong, 

 needle-shaped, or sausage-shaped; smooth; basidia with 2-4-sterig- 

 mata, sometimes accompanied by cystidioles. Cystidia hyaline, 

 rarely coloured, fusiform, oboval, elliptical, subglobose, subulate, 

 conical, acicular, filiform, cylindrical, clavate or capitate, sometimes 

 septate, and with clamp connections, smooth, or incrusted with 

 crystalline granules, generally thick walled, sometimes thin walled 

 and then projecting, not immersed in the tissue. Growing on wood, 

 more rarely on leaves, or on the ground. 



1. Cystidia cylindrical, or conical, thick walled, not incrusted ex- 

 ternally with crystalline deposits, often divided at the base into 

 several roots. In Peniophora Aegerita and its allies the walls of the 

 cystidia are more or less rugose, the central canal is narrow and 

 not enlarged at the apex, and the trama is poor or indistinct. In 

 Peniophora glebulosa and its allies the cystidia are very thick 

 walled, vitreous, with a capillary canal always more or less abruptly 

 dilated at the apex and with thinner walls. 



2327. P. Aegerita von Hoehn. & Litsch. Beit, zur Kennt. der Cort. 

 in Sitzungsber. der k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. Kl. 

 Bd. cxvi (1907), 813, and reprint 75, text-fig. 7. 

 Aegerita, a genus of fungi, with which this species is always 

 associated. 



R. 1-5 cm., white to alutaceous, effused, adnate. Hymenium con- 

 color ous, finely bristling with the cystidia under a lens, and porous. Flesh 

 white, submembranaceous, very thin. Spores white, broadly ellip- 

 tical, or subglobose, 6-9 x 5-6 ju,, 1-guttulate; basidia clavate, 24- 

 30 x 7-8 //,, with 2-4 straight sterigmata, 4-6 /A long. Cystidia arising 

 from the basal hyphae, cylindrical, or slightly swollen below, apex 

 blunt, 42-100 x 6-12//,, thick walled, rugose throughout their length. 

 Hyphae thin walled, 3-4-5ju, in diam., soon collapsing. Rotten sticks, 

 and fallen branches, generally in association with Aegerita Candida 

 Pers. Sept. April. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



