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HYDNACE^E 



Irpex, 



LXXIII. IRPEX Fr. 



(From a fancied resemblance in the fruiting surface to the teeth of a 



harrow, irpex.) 



Hymenium inferior, toothed, teeth firm, somewhat coriaceous, 

 acu te spathulate in 1753 concrete with the pileus or subiculum, 



Fig. 88. A, Ir/vx fuscoviolaceiis Fr. ; B, section of same ; two-thirds natural size, c, D, teeth 

 of ditto; X 3. E, /. pendnlns Fr., teeth enlarged. F, /. obliquus Fr., ditto; G, ditto; X 6. 

 H, /. deformis Fr., teeth enlarged, j, /. spatJinlattts Fr., teeth ; X 3. 



arranged in irregular rows, like broken gills or broken honeycomb, 



connected at the base by veins or folds. Basidia 4-spored. (Fig. 88.) 



Generally growing on wood, somewhat sessile or resupinate, 



approaching Lenzites and Dczdalea. Species 1748 1756 



Pendulous, with the pileus extended behind. 1748 



EfFuso-reflexed, marginate. 1749 1751 



Resupinate. 17521756 



1748. I. pendulus Fr. (from the pendulous habit) a c, 



P. membranous, slightly rugose or plicate, adpressedly squamu- 

 loso-pilose, light yellow to white-brown. Te. in rows, large, 

 incised, white. 



Sticks, pine, larch, spreading on to moss ; rare, if in. ; group 2\ in. Must 

 not be confounded with 1757. 



