CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. Itfl 



serve the purpose of radical fibres. After some time the attach- 

 ment formed by those fibres loosens, and the plant turns up more 

 or less, but remains still attached in some one part, either central 

 or lateral. The smooth upper side is now become the under one ; 

 and from this the seeds are discharged. The fibrous surface, no\r 

 uppermost, continues shaggy or woolly, often becomes streaked or 

 zoned in concentric stripes, and frequently assumes a variety of 

 colours." WITHERING. 



1. A. reflexa, coriaceous, thin, yellowish, zoned; upper surface 

 smooth, even ; beneath villous or shaggy, zoned WITH. iv. 373. 

 Sow. Fung. t. 27. GREV. Crypt. Fl. t. 256. Thelephora hirsuta, 

 HOOK. Scot. ii. 29. GREV. Fl. Edin. 407. 



Hob. On decayed wood, very common ; either irregularly 

 effused or in circular pieces, and always shewing a ten- 

 dency to assume the circular form. 



2. A. ferruginea, imbricated, hard, woody, somewhat zoned; red- 

 dish-brown, smooth; upper surface papillose, minutely velvetty, 

 rust-brown, paler at the margin. WITH. iv. 376. Sow. Fung. 

 t. 26. Thelephora rubiginosa, HOOK. Scot. ii. 29. GREV. FL Edin. 

 408. 



Tfab. On decaying trunks of trees, not common. 



3. A. corylea^ effused, adnate, thickish, the margin slightly re- 

 flexed ; upper surface ochre-yellow, cracked in irregular squares, 

 smooth, unequally papillose; beneath pubescent. Thelephora 

 corylea, GREV. Fl. Edin. 408. 



Hab. On decaying and dead hazel trees. Sent from the 

 neighbourhood of Wooler by James Mitchell, Esq. R. N. 



4. A. corticalis, effused, adnate, thin, somewhat brittle ; upper 

 surface flesh-coloured, unequally papillose, at length cracking ; 

 beneath blackish and smooth WITH. iv. 377. Thelephora quer- 

 cina, GREV. Fl. Edin. 409; Crypt. FL t. 142. 



Hab. On dead branches of oak. Houndswood. 



The same or a nearly allied species is very common on dead 

 branches of the whin and broom. 



