HYDNACEiE 
9 i 
Cup-shaped, J in. high, membranaceous, erect or drooping, 
smooth, margin sinuate, irregular. H. even whitish or 
yellowish, rarely brownish. Gregarious on dead herbaceous 
stems in damp situations in aut. Frequent. 
SOLENIA 
(Gr. solen , a pipe—from the short pipe-like shape) 
S. anomala (from its anomalous character). Plate 
XXX. 6. 
Forms effused patches on rotten wood and bark, | in. or 
more across. It might easily be mistaken for a Poria, the 
tubes being very minute, and more or less incurved at the 
mouth. Externally pilose, varying in colour from dingy 
ochreous to ferruginous. 
HYDNACEiE 
Hydnum. 
Sistotrema. 
Irpex. 
Radulum. 
Phlebia. 
Grandinia. 
Porothelium. 
Odontia. 
Kneiffia. 
Mucronella. 
(Teeth-bearing Fungi) 
KEY TO THE GENERA 
Sporophore fleshy, with a central stem, or resupinate. 
Hymenium covered with teeth, which are acute and 
distinct at the base. 
Sporophore fleshy, with a central stem. Hymenium 
covered with flattened and irregular teeth. 
Resupinate. Hymenium covered with teeth that are 
rather acute, and spring from folds or ridges. 
Resupinate. Hymenium covered with coarse, deformed, 
subcylindrical and obtuse tubercles. 
Resupinate. Hymenium covered with folds or wrinkles. 
Resupinate. Hymenium covered with minute, per¬ 
sistent, hemispherical granules. 
Resupinate. Hymenium covered with wart - like 
granules, which are excavated at the apices. 
Resupinate. Hymenium covered with granules that 
are divided at the apices in a pencil-shaped manner. 
Resupinate. Hymenium covered with very minute, 
barren, acute spinules. 
Resupinate. Hymenium covered with long, slender, 
acute spines, destitute of any sporophore or subiculum. 
