688 PENIOPHORA 



2328. P. glebulosa (Fr.) Bres. (= Thelephora calcea Fr. var. gkbulosa 

 Fr.) Bres. Fung. Trid. n, 1. 170, fig. 2. 



Gkbulosa, full of little clods. 



R. 2-5 cm., cream colour, dirty white, or greyish, effused, closely 

 adnate ; margin mealy, or similar. Hymenium concolorous, pubescent 

 with the cystidia, cracked into small irregular areas when dry. Flesh 

 pale, membranaceous, floccose, rather thick, dense. Spores white, 

 narrowly cylindrical, curved, 7-9-5 x 1-5-2 /LI; basidia 5-15 x 3-4 /A, 

 with 4-sterigmata, about 4/A long. Cystidia cylindrical to conical, 

 70-160 x 6-1 2 /a, obtuse, or pointed, sometimes subventricose at the 

 base, often forked below, some sunken, and some projecting 90 p, 

 above the hymenium, springing from the basal hyphae, thick walled, 

 smooth, or slightly incrusted in the upper portion. Hyphae thin 

 walled, 1 3/x in diam., very closely interwoven and scarcely distinct. 

 Wood, and bark. Jan. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 

 var. subulata Bourd. & Galz. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, text-figs. 

 p. 72. Subulata, awl-shaped. 



Differs from the type in the hymenium not cracking into small 

 irregular areas when dry, and in the more acute, or subulate cystidia. 

 On wood. Nov. Jan. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2329. P. accedens Bourd. & Galz. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, text- 

 figs, p. 140. Accedens, approaching. 



R. 12 cm., whitish, or greyish, irregularly effused, spot-like, filmy. 

 Hymenium concolorous, becoming cracked when dry, setulose, glisten- 

 ing with the cystidia under a lens. Flesh very thin, scarcely per- 

 ceptible. Spores white, elliptical, with a lateral apiculus, 4-5 x 3- 

 3-5/>i, often 1-guttulate; basidia 9-15 x 4-4-5/Li, with 2 4-sterigmata, 

 3-3-5/x, long. Cystidia filiform, or linear, 50-60 x 4/u,, dilated at the 

 apex into a globose head, 10-11 {j, in diam., thick walled. Hyphae in- 

 distinct, 1-5-2/Lt in diam. Rotten wood. Nov. Dec. Rare, (v.v.) 



2330. P. subalutacea (Karst.) von Hoehn. & Litsch. (= Corticium 

 subalutaceum Karst.) Sub, somewhat ; alutacea, tanned leather. 



R. 2-5 cm., dirty white, or greyish, with a slight ochraceous tinge, 

 widely effused, adnate; margin very narrow, pruinose, or similar. 

 Hymenium concolorous, loose, rather rough under a lens, with slight, 

 irregularly scattered thickenings of the tissue (hardly granules). 

 Spores white, narrowly cylindrical, slightly curved, 5-9 x 1-5-2-5/n; 

 basidia 10-24 x 3-5/i, with 2-4 straight sterigmata, 4-5/x- long. Cys- 

 tidia cylindrical, slightly attenuated at the base, 95-150 x 5-7 p, pro- 

 jecting 60 IJL or more above the hymenium, smooth, thin walled and 

 thinner at the rounded apex, often 1-2-septate. Basal hyphae much 

 branched, wavy, rather rigid, thick walled, 2-3/n in diam., with clamp 

 connections. Wood, and fallen branches of conifers. Sept. Oct. Un- 



