1875. P. einerea Cooke (from the ash-coloured hymenium; cinis,
ashes) abc.
Waxy, becoming rigid, confluent, cracking when dry. Hym.
minutely papillose or granular, cinereous or lurid, umber-white
or white-lavender, often clouded umber, here and there pale
salmon-white; marg. usually definite.
Wood, bark, herbaceous stems, pine, oak, poplar, lime, ash, honeysuckle, ivy,
bramble, Lycmm, Vibiir-num. Aug.-June. 6 in.
1876. P. velutina Cooke (from the velvety hymenium; vellus,
fleece) a c.
Broadly efiused, adnate, very delicate, cracking when dry.
Hym. even, flesh-colour, rose-salmon, ivory, scarlet-white,
sometimes rose-lavender, paler at the somewhat broad, fleecy,
usually fimbriate marg., extending in radiate strands of mycelium.
Wood, bark, pine, bracken, sometimes involving moss. Oct.-May.
6 in.
1877. P. rimosa Cooke (from the cracked hymenium ; i-ima, a
cleft) a.
Broadly effused, agglutinate, cracking into areolæ with silky
interstices. Hym. cinereous, pallid fawn, or somewhat pale
brown-sienna-ochre.
Bark, wood. 4 in. Differing from 1876 principally in the larger spores.
1878. P. seotiea Mass. (from the first place of finding, Scotland) a.
Broadly effused. Hym. cinnamon or -pale brownish-ochre,
obscurely vinous and clouded opaque cinnamon-brown ; marg.
fibrillosely-radiate.
Inside bark. 3^ in. The irregularities of the inner side of the bark show
through the substance.
1879. P. phyllophila Mass. (from its habitat, leaves ; Gr. phullon, a
\eai, philos, loving) a.
Broadly effused, membranous. Hym. continuous, ivory, sometimes
faintly sulphurous or ochreous ; marg. fibrillose or
indeterminate.
Dead leaves. 4§ in. Must not be confounded with the non-British
Corticium epiphyllum, from which it is distinguished by its setæ.
1880. P. pubera Sacc. (from the downy hymenium ; puber, downy) a c.
Broadly effused, closely adnate, very delicate, cracking. Hym.
even, white, clay-colour or colour of milky coffee ; marg.
determinate to indeterminate but minutely ragged, sometimes
slightly pulverulent.
Oak, beech, mountain ash, rough pieces of rotten wood. Jan.-Feb. 3j in.
1881. P. terrestris Mass. (from its occasional place of growth, the
ground, terra) a b.
Effused, very thin. Hym. cinereous, pallid fawn or lavender-slate-
white.
Earth, twigs, branches, leaves. 5 in. Resembles pale dull lavender clouds.
1881a. P. Chrysanthemi W. G. Sm., Corticium Chrysanthemi Plowr.
(from the habitat, base of living chrysanthemum stems) a. ^ _
Effused, incrusting, indeterminate, uneven from the irregularities
of the matrix. Sub. filamentous. Hym. indeterminate, white.
Autumn. 5 in.
1882. P. hydnoides Cooke & Mass. (from the resemblance of the
hymenium to certain resupinate species of Hydnum ; eidos,
appearance) a.
Broadly effused, thin, somewhat innate. Hym. cinereous or dull
lavender-white, clouded.
Bark. Nov. 5® in. Somewhat resembles Grandinia.
LXXXVII. CONIOPHORA DC.
(From the dust or spore-powdered hymenium ;
Gr. konis, ánsi, phoreo, to carry.)
Resupinate, broadly effused, margin defined or indeterminate,
closely attached to the matrix. Hymenium even, powdered with
F ia 102.— A, Coniophora. olivácea K a r st., one-nall natura size, u, uasiuiuin
and fpores of ditto, X 5?o- C- oehraeea Mass., one-half natural size.
D, basidium and spores of ditto, X 500.
spores, without setæ. Basidia tetrasporous. Spores smooth, pale
brownish or pale dull ochreous. (Fig. 102.).
Growing in broadly expanded patches on dead wood or bark.
^ Species 1883—1898
Spores large. 1883-1893
spores smill. 1894-1896
Substance soft, subgelatinous. 1897, 1898
1883. C. olivaeea Karst, (from the olivaceous colour) abc.
Membranous, broadly effused, orbicular or elongate. Hym. dull
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