No. 98. 
December, 1892. 
dk^trillp. 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OE CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
FUNGI. 
Notes on Fungi in the Royal Herbarium, Kew. 
By George Massee. 
GLOIQCEPKALA. Mass, (n.g.) 
Hymenopbore circular, plane, the upper sterile surface bearing 
numerous large, projecting cystidia which secrete a considerable 
quantity of hyaline mucus ; hymenium covering the entire under 
surface of the hymenophore, and consisting of closely packed 
basidia, each bearing a single spore at the apex ; stem central, 
composed of a fascicle of transversely septate hyphas. 
The type of the pre- 
sent genus resembles in 
general appearance a 
miniature agaric ; the 
stem is composed of a 
bundle of closely agglu- 
tinated, transversely sep- 
tate, thin-walled hyphas, 
that become free from 
each other at the base 
and spread for some dis- 
tance over the surface, 
and also enter the tissues 
of the decaying leaf on 
which the fungus grows. 
At the apex the stem 
expands abruptly into 
the thin, flat, circular 
pileus or hymenophore, and forms a central interwoven layer con- 
sisting of cylindrical septate hyphas of equal diameter to those of 
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