CLASSIFICATION 425 



C. minima. — Whitish, flabeHiform or fan-shaped, resupinate, 

 sterile, surface tomentose, 2-4 Hues across (spores elhptic-oblong, 

 apiculate at the base, curved, 14-15x4-5 /^). 



Becoming yellowish tan when dry. Looking like a tiny, young 

 specimen of Stereum hirsidum, distinguished by the wrinkled 

 hymenium. 



On bark. Gregarious. 



Thelephora 



Furnished \^■ith a central stem, or dimidiate or entirely resupinate, 

 flaccid and fibrous in texture ; hymenium generally wrinkled or 

 irregularly warted. 



All the species are more or less fibrous in texture and of a dingy 

 brown colour. 



I. Growing erect, much cut up into narrow portions. 



T: anthocephala. — Entirely rusty brown, downy, broken up into 

 erect, narrow segments with ^^•hitish fringed tips. 



Forming tufts 1-2 in. high, segments usually narrowly wedge- 

 shaped. 



On the ground in woods. 



T. caryophyllea. — Brownish purple ; stem short, pileus irregularly 

 cup-shaped, margin lobed or cut into narrow segments. 



Tough, usually many plants closeh' crowded, forming dense tufts 

 2-3 in. high. 



Among grass under trees. 



T. palmata. — Brownish purple, broken up from the very short 

 stem into many flattened, branched segments with whitish fringed 

 tips. Very foetid. 



Distinguished by the strong, unpleasant smell when rubbed. 

 Forming dense tufts i|-3 in. high. 



On the ground in woods. 



T. clavularis. — Reddish bro^^•n with a vinous or purplish tinge, 

 soft, branches very irregular, crowded, roundish or more or less 

 flattened, smooth, pruinose, tips acute, whitish, downy ; stem very 

 short, somewhat tuberous. 



Brajiches densely fasciculate, rounded or compressed, ending in 

 more or less whitish, downy, acute tips, i-i^ in. high. 



T. intyhacea. — Tufted, soft, whitish, then reddish brown ; stems 

 more or less confluent or grown together ; pileoli overlapping, 

 fibrous, edge expanded, whitish, becoming dark ; l^menium 

 papillose. 



Variable in size, tufted, ii-2| in. high, erect or \\itli laterally 

 spreading, sub-triangular pilei, 1-2 in. across. 



On the ground. 



