284 



THELEPHOREI. 



Corticium. On branches. Altyre, &c. Oct. 



Name ferrugo, iron-rust. From the rusty colour. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 

 661. B. & Br, n. 1585. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 908. 



47. C. lacunosum B. & Br. Broadly effused, soft, mycelium 

 woolly-tawny ', lacunose. Hymenium pulvemlent. 



On branches. Aboyne, 1870. Sept. 



Name lacuno, to hollow out. Full of hollows, lacunose. B. & Br. n. 1371. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 909. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 661. 



48. C. anthochroum r. Brick-red-rose-colour, becoming pale, 

 effused, even above, wholly broken up, floccoso-velvety, circum- 

 ference flaxy, paler. 



Very pretty. Without a hymeneal membrane. 



On sticks, sycamore, birch. Rare. Feb. 



Name ai/0o?, a flower ; xpw, colour. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 66 1. 5. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 910. Theleph. Pers. Syn. p. 576. Berk. Out. p. 270. C. Hbk. n. 

 909. 



Cypheiia. GENUS XLIX. Cyphella (KV((>6s, a goblet). 



Fr. Syst. Myc. 2. p. 201. 



Somewhat membranaceous, cup-shaped, rarely plane, adnate be- 

 hind, commonly extended in stem- 

 like form, pendulous. Hymenium 

 definitely inferior, similar, without 

 the heterogeneous disc and asci of 

 Pezizce, even or at length slightly 

 wrinkled. Sporophores 4-spored, 

 spores subovate. 



Without doubt very near to So- 

 lenia, and removed from them by 

 artificial characters. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 661. 



* Lignicola (growing on wood). 

 f * Muscicolce (growing on mosses). 

 *** Stipiticolce (growing on stems). 

 **** Caulicolce and epiphyllce (growing 

 on stalks and leaves). 



* Lignicolce (growing on wood). 



1. C. Bloxami B. & Phill. White, floccoso-membranaceous, 

 disc becoming light yellow, crenato-lobed ; flocci even. 



LXXXIX. Cyphella catilla. 

 Natural size. 



