174 FUNGUS-PLOEA. 



Phlebia merismoides. Fr. 



Broadly effused, thin, tremelloid when fresh, flesh-colour, 

 then with dingy, purple tinge ; even or irregular when in- 

 crusting, naargin strigose, orange, with white down on the 

 under surface ; wrinkles of hymenium crowded, never form- 

 ing pores or reticulations ; spores 3 x 1 • 6 /a. 



Phlebia merismoides, Pries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 427 ; Stev., 

 Brit. Fung., p. 253. 



On trunks ; running over moss, &c., 1-3 in. across. 



Pileus camose, not a line in thickness, either growing 

 upon the hark itself, or (more frequently) spreading for two 

 or three inches over the mosses upon it, especially near the 

 ground ; often completely enveloping their stems, in which 

 state it bears no inconsiderahle resemblance to a stalactite 

 incrustation. The colour is more or less orange, or red ; 

 that in the centre being more and more dull as the plant 

 grows older, but the margin is delicate and very bright ; 

 beneath the pileus is whitish and downy. The surface of 

 the hymenium partly depends upon the subjacent body ; but 

 it is always either more or less tuberculated or folded ; when 

 growing on mosses, the folds or rugae often pass into pro- 

 minent somewhat elongated papillae; when the subjacent 

 surface is plane, the rugae are more perfectly developed, and 

 pass towards the circumference in a tolerably direct manner. 

 The margin is byssoid. (Grev.) 



Phlebia radiata. Pr. (figs. 10, 11, p. 149.) 



Eeddish-flesh colour or almost orange, thin, subrotund, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, margin with radiating tooth-like 

 processes ; folds or wrinkles more or less straight and 

 radiating; spores oylindric-oblong, curved, 4r-5 x 1-1 "6 /x. 



Phlebia radiata, Pries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 427; Stev., Brit. 

 Pung., p. 254. 



On dead wood, bark, &c. Patches reaching to 8 in. or 

 more across, thin, bright-coloured. 



Between fleshy and membranaceous, tough; at first 

 orbicular, then dilated, confluent, 1-3 in. broad, margin 

 free, smooth, but beautifully fibroso-radiated. Polds radiat- 

 ing from the centre, short, interwoven, very close. (Pries.) 



One of the specimens gathered by Captain Carmichael is 

 four inches long and appears to have been originally still 



