CORTICIUM. 121 



often tinged with lilac or pale ochre when dry ; spores 

 cylindric-ellipsoid, 8 x 4 /*. 



Corticium calceum, Fr., Hym. Eur., p. 652 ; Mass., Mon. 

 Thel., p. 127. 



On wood. Often effused for several inches, thin, when 

 dry sometimes cracked, at others not. 



Corticium sebaceum. Mass. 



Effused, rather fleshy, often incrusting twigs and grass in 

 a stalactitic manner, white ; hymenium collapsing when dry, 

 pruinose ; spores elliptical, apiculate at the base, 14-16 X 

 7-9/4. 



Corticium sebaceum, Mass., Mon. Theleph., p. 127. 



Tlielephora sebacea, Berk., Outl., 1. 17, f. 6; Cke.Hdbk.,n.904. 



On the ground, or running up grass, twigs, &c. Whitish, 

 rather pulpy when fresh ; the hymenium. when perfectly 

 formed smooth and waxy, becoming pallid when dry. 



Corticium scutellare. B. & C. 



Broadly effused, thin, inseparable from the matrix, margin 

 indistinct, white then dirty tan-colour or tawny; hymenium 

 waxy, smooth, very much cracked in an areolate manner, 

 interstices silky, white ; spores elliptical, 5 x 3 /u. 



Corticium scutellare, Berk, and Curt., Grevillea, ii. p. 4j 

 Mass., Mon. Thel., p. 128. 



On wood, herbaceous stems, &c. Eecognised by the areo- 

 lately cracked, tan-coloured hymenium and small spores. 



Corticium foetidum. B. & Br. 



Foetid, effused, crust-like, velvety below ; hymenium whit- 

 ish, then pale tan ; spores elliptical, 7 x 4 //,. 



Corticium foetidum, Berk, and Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 

 5, iii. 1879, p. 211 ; Mass., Mon. Thel., p. 131, pi. vi. f. 3. 



Forming a thin crust on sawdust ; hymenium pallid when 

 dry, even or rather rugged from inequalities of the matrix. 

 Very foetid when fresh. 



Corticium lacteum. Fr. 



Broadly effused, submembranaceous, usually more or less 

 irregularly lobed and broken up, under surface and margin 

 fibrillose ; hymenium waxy, cracked, showing the fibrillose 



