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longer. In this the character of the radiated margin is 

 entirely lost and the folds are very short, so as to resemble 

 blunt compressed teeth; but there is still something like 

 order visible in their disposition. (Berk.) 



Phlebia contorta. Fr. 



Effused, rather firm, smooth on both surfaces, margin 

 indeterminate ; wrinkles of the hymenium often branched, 

 waved, and irregularly arranged; dingy flesh-colour, then 

 brownish; spores cylindric-oblong, curved, 35 x 11*5 /u.. 



Phlebia contorta, FT., Syst. Myc. i. p. 427; Stevenson, 

 Brit. Fung., p. 254. 



On decaying wood. Closely allied to P. radiata and dis- 

 tinguished chiefly by the irregularly arranged, contorted 

 folds. 



Phlebia vaga. Fr. 



Effused, closely adnate, margin fibrillose or byssoid, of a 

 dirty yellowish shade, hymenium greyish-yellow, or some- 

 times with a dingy lilac shade ; wrinkles slender, waved 

 and intricately interwoven, when in perfect condition covered 

 with granules ; spores 3-4 x 1-2 /A. 



Phlebia vaga, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 428; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 254. 



On dead wood. Hymenial rugae or wrinkles intricately 

 arranged, ridges papillose. 



Phlebia lirellosa. B. & Br. 



Eesupinate, margin free, greyish-umber, 12 in. across, 

 wrinkles thin, straight, branched, or in some instances anas- 

 tomosing to form pores. 



Phlelia lirellosa, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1973; Stev., 

 Brit. Fung., p. 254. 



Daedalea lirellosa, Persoon, Myc. Eur., iii. p. 2, t. 18, f. 2. 



On branches, wood, &c. 



GKANDINIA. Fr. (figs. 12, 13, p. 149.) 



Crustaceous, effused, thin ; hymenium covering the entire 

 free surface, warted or grariulose; warts entire, smooth, 

 crowded, apices usually indented, basidia tetrasporous. 



Grandinia, Fr., Epicr., p. 527 ; Stev., Fung. Brit, p. 255. 



