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crispa, a curl. Crisped. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 631. Berk. Out. p. 266. 

 Hbk. n. 889. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 842. Sow. t. 75. Hussey ii. /. 18. 



C. Craterellur. 



*** Irregularly shaped, pilcus and stem fleshy. 



5. C. clavatus Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, somewhat 

 light yellowish, fleshy, turbinate, truncate or depressed, flexuous, 

 unpolished, attenuated into the solid stem; flesh thick, white. 

 Hymenium even, then corrugated, purplish then changing 

 colour. 



Solitary or csespitose, occasionally branched. The hymenium is white- 

 pruinose with the spores, not separate, violaceous-flesh-colour passing into 

 fuliginous or umber ; hence the following forms are distinct : A. violaceous 

 then date-brown. B. flesh-colour. Schceff. t. 164. Schmid. Ic. 2. t. 60. C. 

 purplish. Schceff. t. 276. D. umber. Wulf. in Jacq. Coll. ii. /. 12. /. 3. 



In beech wood. Bisham, Berks. 



Name clavis, a club. Club-shaped. Fr. 

 Sv. t. 91. B. & Br. n. 1445. Krombh. t. 45 



>. 632. Sv. dtl. 



GENUS XLIV. Thelephora (#77*4 a teat; <pe>a>, to bear). Theiephora. 

 Ehrh. Fr. Gen. Hymen. 



Hymenium inferior or amphigenous, continuous with the 

 hymenophore and similar to it, even or ribbed, without an in- 

 termediate stratum. Sporophores 

 4-spored. Coriaceous, destitute of a 

 cuticle, very varied in form (pileate, 

 clavate, resupinate], growing on the 

 ground. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 633. 



* Erect, pileus entire or divided into 

 branches. 



** Pileate, dimidiate, horizontal, some- 

 what sessile or effuso-reflexed. 



*** Resupinate, for the most part incrust- 

 ing, wherefore the forms are various. 



* Erect, pileus entire or divided 

 into branches. 



1. T. Sowerbeii B. & Br. Snow- 

 white, at length changing colour, 

 here and there dingy yellow. Pileus 

 coriaceous, entire, inftindibuliform, 



rough with radiating processes projecting from the surface. Hy- 

 menium smooth (not bristly). 



LXXXIV. Theiephora laciniata. 

 One-third natural size. 



