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HYMENOMYCETES 
P. quisquillaris ( quisquilice , sweepings, rubbish—from its 
habitat). Plate XXVII. i. 
Forms minute whitish clubs, J in. high, on dead leaves 
and fern-stem (especially bracken) in aut. Gregarious. 
Common. 
Coniophora. 
Aldridgea. 
Tlielephora. 
Soppittiella. 
Exobasidiura. 
Peniophora. 
Hymenochsete. 
Corticium. 
Stereum. 
Cladoderris. 
Craterellus. 
Cyphella. 
Solenia. 
Family THELEPHORACEiE 
(Leathery Fungi) 
KEY TO THE GENERA 
Resupinate, dry. Hymenium pulverulent. 
Resupinate ; soft and gelatinous. 
Resupinate to erect, dry. Hymenium rugulose. 
Encrusting or effused. Subgelatinous. Hymenium 
even. 
Parasitic on living leaves and stems. 
Hymenium with colourless cystidia. Rough at the tip 
with particles of lime; hence appearing minutely 
velvety under a pocket lens. 
Hymenium with brown smooth cystidia. Minutely 
velvety when viewed with a pocket lens. 
Resupinate. Hymenium smooth and even, cracking 
when dry. 
Effuso-reflexed. Pileus silky or strigose. Hymenium 
even, glabrous. 
Horizontal ; attached by a small point behind. 
Hymenium radiato-rugulose. 
Large, erect, funnel-shaped. Hymenium glabrous. 
Minute, cup-shaped, usually single, mouth open. 
Minute, cylindrical, gregarious or crowded. Tubular, 
with the mouth contracted. 
CONIOPPIORA 
(Gr. konis, dust; phoreo , to carry—from the hymenium being 
powdered with the spores) 
C. olivacea (from its colour). Plate XXX. 5. 
Forms dull olive patches, up to 5 in. across on pine wood 
