GRANDINIA. 



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GENUS XXXIX. Grandinia (grando, hail. From the granular Grandinia. 

 character of the hymenium). Fr. Gen. Hymenom. 



Hymenium amphigenous, continuous, waxy, warty with papillae 

 or rather granulose ; granules globose or hemispherical, entire, 

 obtuse or hollowed out at the apex, 

 crowded, regular, smooth, persistent. 

 Crustaceans^ effused, soft, improperly 

 referred on account of their equal and 

 persistent papilla to the Thelephoras, 

 from which they are distinguished by 

 their polished granules. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 625. 



1. G. granulosa Fr. Tan-colour, 

 waxy, broadly effused, agglutinated, 

 circumference determinate, smooth ; 

 hymenium equal, continuous. Gran- 

 ules hemispherical, equal, crowded. 



On dead branches. Common. 

 Oct.-Feb. 



Forming a thin adnate stratum. M.J.B. 

 Namegranum, a small seed. Granular. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 626. Berk. Out. p. 264. 

 n. 8^2,Pers. Syn. p. 576. 



2. G. mucida Fr. Pale yellowish, waxy-mucid, effused, some- 

 what innate, circumference determinate, somewhat radiate ; hyme- 

 nium continuous. Granules crowded, large, unequal, hemispher- 

 ical, soft. 



Somewhat gelatinous when moist, corrugated when dry. 

 On rotting pine. Glamis, 1877. May-Nov. 



Name mucidus, mucid. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 626. B. & Br. n. 1691. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 833. 



3. G. ocellata Fr. Livid, waxy, broadly effused, agglutinated, 

 the indeterminate circumference sterile ; hymenium unequal, con- 

 tinuous. Granules crowded, somewhat conical, obtuse, equal, of 

 the same colour. 



Unchanged when dry, not cracked, sterile in some places. The granules 

 terminate in a very delicate whitish apiculus, and on this sinking in the apex 

 is hollowed out forming as it were a small eye. 



On dead trunks. Bodelwyddan. Coed Coch. Aug.-Sept. 



LXXX. Grandinia granulosa. 

 Natural size. Section four 

 times natural size. 



C. Hbk. n. 882. S. Mycol. Scot. 



