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THE LARGER FUNGI 
II. Hymeniuin seated directly on the mycelium. 
Receptacle lesupinate, waxy or floecose. llymenium smooth 
with scattered protuberances cause<l by the breaking 
through of fasciculate sterile mycelial liyphae. Spores 
white. Cystidia none lifrithele. 
Receptacle saucer-shaped with a free mai'gin, or I'esupinato 
and adnate, floecose or crustaceous becoming coriaceous, 
llymenium smooth, pulverulent with much granular or 
crystalline matter. Spores white, large; basidia large, 
sterile basidia or paraphyses moniliform or racemose . . Aleurodiscus. 
Receptacle effused, crumbly, floecose, thin-membranaceous 
or almost waxy. llymenium formed of sparsely dis- 
tributed basidia in a felt-work of dichotomous-branching 
ramifying paraphyses (diohopliyses), colourless or poorly 
stained with pointed ends, basidia club-shaped with 2-1 
sterigmata. Spores thin-walled, smooth, hyaline . . . . Asterostromella. 
Like Alleurodisous but with warty setae (dendrophyses) 
forming projecting structures on the hymeniuin . . . . Dendrothele. 
Receptacle resupinate; waxy, crustaceous or floecose. 
llymenium waxy, smooth or tubercular, continuous, often 
cracked. Spores white or faintly coloured, smooth. No 
cystidia; sterile basidia (cystidioles) sometimes emergent Cortioimn. 
Like Cortioi/um but the hyphae and llymenium traversed by 
long cystidia-like bodies, whose walls are never thickened 
and are not inerusted with crystalline dejiosits (gloeo- 
evstidia) ' Cortiduyn (Subgenus 
‘ Gloeocystidium) . 
Receptacle effused or reflexed, at first thread-like, 
llymenium with star-shaped brown setae. Spores globose 
or elongated Asterostroma. 
Receptacle leathery or papery, reflexed or dee})ly concave. 
Hymeniuin rough with short close-set many-celled setae, 
almost Ilydmum likQ lionia. 
Receptacle inerusting, variously branched, lobed or effused, 
fibrillosely floecose, soft. ‘ Spores wdiite, echinulate. 
Growing on fallen twdgs and mosses Cristella 
(Thelephora p.p.). 
Receptacle resupinate, soft, floecose. Hymeniuin gi-anular 
or smooth, floecose. Flesh coloured. Spores coloured, 
echinulate or angular Ilypochmts 
( Tomentella ) . 
Like IFypochnus but spores violet, smooth llypoohnella. 
Receptacle resupinate, effused, flocculose-pulverulent, Ily- 
2 )Oo/i)M/.s-like. Spores straw-coloured, subelliptical, liyaline- 
appendiculate Jaapia. 
Receptacle i-esupinate, waxy. llymenium granular or 
smooth. Spores coloured, "smooth. No cystidia .. .. Coniophora. 
Take Coniophora but with cystidia Coniophorella. 
Like Corticium, but with prominent hyaline or subhyaline 
cystidia in the hymeniuin or subhymenial tissues, wliich 
arc generally' thick-wuilled or inerusted yvith crystalline 
deposits. Spores white, rarely slightly coloured . . . . Peniophora. 
Receptacle very small, hemispherical, on a narrowed base, 
bristly. Hymeniuin superior. Basidia with 2-4 sterig- 
mata.' Cystidia numerous, very- long, lanceolate, rough, 
springing' from the base of the receptacle. Spores 
smooth, wdiite Wiesnerina. 
CYPHELLACEAE. 
Receptacles sessile, scattered, crowded or confluent, 
coriaceous-gelatinous. Hymeniuin smooth, becoming 
WTinkled or veined. Spores white or pale Cytidia 
( Aurioulariopsis ) . 
