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from the matrix, traversed by rhizomorplioid threads ; circum- 

 ference fibrilloso-firabriatc; warts minute, granular; apex mul- 

 tifid, reddish. 



On fallen branches. Not uncommon. Frequently tinged 

 with lilac. Very pretty. 



33. KNEIFPIA, Fr. 



Soft, loosely fleshy, flocculose and collapsing when dry, 

 hymenium rough with rigid, scattered, and fasciculate bristles. 



1. K. setigera, Fr. 



On fallen branches. Not common. Wraxall, Somerset- 

 shire, C. E. B. White, somewhat resembling Grandi/iia gra- 

 nulosa in general appearance. 



Order 4. AUBICTILABINL 



Hymenium confluent with the hymeuophorum, at first 

 even or rarely veined, and commonly remaining even.'^ 



31. CBATERELLUS, Fr. 



Fleshy. Hymenium unchangeable, carnoso-membranaeeous, 

 distinct, smooth, even, or at length rugose. Putrescent when 

 old. 



1. C. lutescens, Fr. ; pileus sul:)mcmbranaceous, tubecform, 

 soon pervious, brown, flocculose ; stem hollow, yellow ; hymc- 



* In some AuncuJnrinl there arc spurious papillae which arc wholly acci- 

 dental, and not essential, like the granules of Grandinia. Craterellits is confluent 

 with Cantharellus, and Thelephora with O'randinla, but the veins of the one 

 and the papillse of the other are less determinate. The folds in Aurk-idaria are 

 still less essential, and depend upon the nature of the texture. Natural, how- 

 ever, as the whole group is, it is difllcult to define it in words. 



