LEATHER FUNGI 



dark gray, the- small faint folds more or less united : 

 8 X 5-6/i. The name of doubtful application. 

 On the ground in woods ; excellent. 



spores clear, globoid, 6- 



TIIELEFIIORA 



Cap funnel-form to fan-shaped or irregular, leathery, the hymenium smooth or 

 slightly wrinkled. A genus of widely different forms, closely related to C r a t e r e b 

 1 u s, and to the two following genera as well. The forms are all leatherv, and hence 

 not edible. The name refers to the more or less wrinkled hymenium. 



Figure 78. CR.^iERELLus cornucopioides 

 Key to the Species 



1 . Cap funnel-form, snow-white 'T . sowcrbyi 



2. Cap fan-shaped, or more or less irregular 



a. Cap narrowly fan-shaped, erect, whitish T. schwcinitzii 



b. Cap shelf-like, somewhat imbricated, rust-brown T. laciniata 



Thelephora sowerbyi Snowy Thelephora 



C a p 2-5 cm. tall, snowy white, zoneless, rough with radiating lines, leathery- 

 woody, entire, funnel-form; hymenium smooth; spores irregularly globose, 

 angled, clear, 7-8/i. Named after the English botanist, Sowerby. 



In troops or small clusters on the ground in woodland or in openings. 



