HYDNACE^E 



Irpex 



a base resembling small honeycomb, compressed, unequal, 

 incised. Often with large pores near the marg. 

 Stumps, dead branches, fir, larch, beech, birch, palms in nurseries. Oct.- 

 May. 4$ in. 



1755. I. deformis Fr. (from the misshapen teeth; dcformis, mis- 



shapen) a c. 



Effused, crustaceous, thin, white; circ. pubescent, somewhat 

 flaxy. Te. awl-shaped, growing from a minutely porous base, 

 thin, somewhat incised, unevenly and partially spread over the 

 subiculum, matrix seen between the groups of teeth. 



Wood. 2 in. Allied to the Polyporacecs. 



1756. I. earneus Fr. (from its flesh-colour ; caro, flesh) ale. 

 Effuso-gelatinous, membranous, adnate, collapsing, reddish ; 



marg. barren. 71?. awl-shaped, entire, united at the base. 

 Wood and bark, beech. Autumn. 2| in. Placed in Radulum by Fuckel. 

 Must not be confounded with 1720. 



LXXIV. RADULUM Fr. 



(From the root-like appearance of the processes of the hymenium ; 



radix , a root.) 



Hymeniitm resupinate, tubercular. Tubercles distinct at the 

 base, coarse, irregular in shape, commonly elongate, obtuse, mostly 



Fig. (89. A, Radulnm quercinum Fr., one-half natural size ; B, ditto, section, 

 natural size; c. tubercles of R. orbiculare Fr. ; D, ditto of/?, qtiercinum Fr. ; E, 

 ditto of R.fagineum Fr. ; enlarged. 



waxy, scattered or fasciculate. Basidia 4-spored. Growing on 

 wood and on and under bark. (Fig. 89.) Species 1757 1764 



1757. R. pendulum Fr. (from the pendulous habit) a c. 



Longitudinally effused, thick, softly coriaceous, whitish' or ivory, 

 upper marg. shortly reflexed and rugose, lower marg. barren 

 Tub. elongate, somewhat lax, irregular. 

 Alder, birch, pine. 5 in. Must not be confounded with 1748. 



