EICHLERIELLA. TULASNELLA 739 



longitudinally, cruciately divided, with 2-4-sterigmata. Spores white, 

 cylindrical, or oblong, smooth, producing sporidiola on germination. 

 Growing on wood. 



2521. E. spinulosa (Berk. & Curt.) Burt. (= Radulum spinulosum 

 Berk. & Curt.; Radulum deglubens B. & Br.; Eichleriella Kmetii 

 Bres. ; Stereum rufum Eng. Auth. non Fr. sec. Wakefield.) 



Spinulosa, full of little thorns. 



R. 3-6 cm., flesh colour, then wood brown, longitudinally and broadly 

 effused, confluent, separable; margin white, free, or reflexed, tomen- 

 tose beneath. Hymenium concolorous, pruinose, becoming red when 

 Tubbed, usually bearing tubercles, distant, simple, or multifid. Flesh 

 concolorous, coriaceous, soft, thick. Spores white, oblong, sub- 

 cylindrical, curved, very obtuse, 15-18 x 6-10/z; basidia longitu- 

 dinally septate, clavate, then fusiform, 30-45 x 9 12/n, with 2-3-, 

 rarely 4-sterigmata ; paraphyses brown at the apex. Dead branches 

 of ash, and poplar. Sept. March. Uncommon. 



TULASNELLALES. 



Basidia subglobose, simple, with 2-4 very thick, stout sterigmata. 

 Spores white, producing sporidiola on germination. Hymenium fully 

 exposed from the first. 



TULASNELLACEAE. 



Same characters as the order. 



Tulasnella Schroet. 

 (L. R. and C. Tulasne, the eminent French mycologists.) 



Receptacle fleshy membranaceous, or gelatinous, then cartilagi- 

 nous, resupinate, effused. Hymenium smooth, or plicate. Basidia 

 globose, with 2-4 very thick, stout sterigmata, at first obtuse, then 

 becoming elongated and filiform, springing from the apex, or the side 

 of the basidia. Spores white, globose, ovoid, elliptical, pyriform, or 

 pip-shaped, smooth, producing conidia or a mycelium on germina- 

 tion. Growing on wood, and humus. 



2522. T. violea (Quel.) Bourd. & Galz. (= Hypochnus violeus Quel.) 



Violea, violet. 



R. 2-10 cm., lilac violet, or rosy lilac, becoming rosy greyish or de- 

 coloured when dry, broadly effused; margin brighter coloured, byssoid. 

 Hymenium concolorous, membranaceous, tomentose. Flesh mem- 

 branaceous, very thin. Spores (or sterigmata) white, elliptical, 6 x 

 4 /A, "globose or almost globose, 5-7-5-10 x 4-5-6-5-8 /z, basidia 

 oboval, globose, 9-12 x 8-10/u. Hyphae thin walled, 3-6 /i" Bourd. 

 & Galz. Dead wood. Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2523. T. incarnate JueL Incarnata, flesh colour. 

 R. 1-3 cm., bright pink, effused, forming irregular, small patches. 



Hymenium concolorous, continuous, membranaceous. Flesh mem- 



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