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THELEPHOREI. 



Auricuiaria. 1. A. mesenterica Fr. Pilei fuscotts-cmereous, resupinate then 

 reflexed, entire, V\\\QUS, fasciato-zoned. Hymenium costato-plicate, 



fuscous-violaceous. 



On stems of trees. Frequent. 



5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in. ) broad, gelatinous in 

 wet weather, hard and cartilaginous when 

 dry, reviving with wet. Hymenium pow- 

 dered with a beautiful bloom. M.J.B. 

 Spores white, 7x4 mk. W.G.S. Name 

 jneo-eVrepoi/, the mesentery. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 646. Berk. Out. p. 272. C. Hbk. n. 

 919. Sow. t. 290. Hussey ii. /. 6. Bolt. 

 t. 172. Bull. t. 290. Michel. t.j66.f. 4. 



2. A. lobata Sommerf. As much 

 as 17.5 cent. (7 in.) long, 5-12.5 cent. 

 (2-5 in.) broad, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) 

 thick. Pileus fuscous - whitish, ef- 

 fuso-reflexed, lobed, variegated with 

 strigoso - tomentose, velvety and 

 smooth zones. Hymenium fuscous- 

 livid, reticulato-ribbed with distant folds. 

 Very much allied to A. mesenterica. 

 On bark of trees. Uncommon. 



LXXXVII. Auricuiaria mesen- 

 terica. One-third natural size. 



, lobed. Sommerf. in Mag. Nat. Vidensk. 1827, with fig. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 646. Blench, ii. p. 34. Berk. Out. p. 272. t. i8./ i. C. 

 Hbk. 11. 920. 



Corticium. GENUS XLVII I. Corticium (cortex, bark). Fr. Epicr. p. 556. 



Hymenium amphigenous, even or tubercular, springing imme- 

 diately from the mycelium without an intermediate stratum ; in 

 typical species fertile and swelling when moist, fleshy-soft, con- 

 tracted and hence commonly cracked when dry, or the whole 

 breaking up. There are other species added to the genus with 

 the hymenium arid and incrusting. Sporophores 4-spored, rarely 

 single-spored. Resupinate, growing on wood, often sterile. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 646. 



I. LOMANTIA (Xwjoia, a fringe). Resupinate, but free at the circumference, 

 determinate, marginate, commonly cup-shaped then expanded. 



II. HIMANTI^E (i/Aas, a strap). Resupinate, effused, immarginate, clothed 

 with flaxy fibrils or strigosely hairy at the circumference and beneath. Often 

 sterile, fibrillose (mycelia). In their perfect state they are furnished with a 

 remarkably well developed, waxy-soft hymenium. 



