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HYDNACE^E 



Phlebia 



Pcnicillium named Corcmium. It grows on naked birch wood or bark. 

 Sowerby named his example Hydnum erectum ; this grew upon a Polyporus. 

 There is no drawing by Sowerby in the British Museum collection. It has 

 also been named Sphceronema hydnoideum Fr. and Hydnum aterrimum Fr.] 



LXXV. PHLEBIA Fr. 



(From the veined appearance of the hymenium ; Gr. phleps, a vein.) 



Resupinato-eftused, amphigenous, waxy-soft or subgelatinous, from 

 the first covered with crowded interrupted persistent veins which 



A 



Fig. 90. A, Phlebia merismoides Fr. ; B, section of ditto ; 

 two-thirds natural size ; c, veins enlarged. 



are entire, not jagged, at the edge, rarely anastomosing and forming 

 pores. Becoming cartilaginous or horny when dry. Basidia tetra- 

 sporous. (Fig. 90.) 



Dead wood, stumps and branches. Species 1765 1769 



1765. P. merismoides Fr. (from the resemblance of the wrinkled 

 hymenium to that of the non-British section Merismate of 

 Stereum) a b c. 



Whitish-orange or whitish-vermilion ; mid. livid, pale purplish ; 

 marg. strigose, vermilion-white. Ve. simple or slightly branched, 

 straight, crowded, never reticulate or porous. 



Stumps, branches, naked wood, bark, leaves, moss, grass, oak, beech, holly 

 ulum, cherry. Aug. -Jan. 3! in. 



