1. S. confluens, P . ; simple, confluent, white; pileus fleshy,
irreg'iilar, horizontal, villous; stem somewhat excentric; teeth
flexuous.—Grev. t. 248.
On the ground. Not common. At length yellowish, or
tinged with brown. Teeth entire, or jagged.
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28. lE PEX, Fr.
Teeth formed at an early stage of the growth of the subiculum,
concrete with it, and disposed in rows or like network,
and connected together.
1. I. pendnlus, Fr. ; pilei memhranaceous, plicate, clothed
with adpressed, pilose scales, yellow, extended behind, pendulous
; margin and large, seriate, incised teeth white.—Alb.
and Schw. t. 6. / . 7.
On pine-wood. Rare. Scotland, Klotzsch. There is a
strong analogy between this curious plant and Lentinus cochleatus.
No one now knows what Hydnum crispum, Schgeff.,
is. I t probably belongs to this genus, and is said to have
been found by Sihthorp and others.
3. I. Johnstoni, ra. «.; pure white, coriaceo-memhranaceous,
separable from the matrix ; circumference naked ; teeth compressed,
unequal, disposed in rows.
On dead branches. Berwick, Hr. Johnston. This was referred
to I. lacteus in the ‘ English Flora,’ but that is a far
thicker and very different species. The separable subiculum,
and pure, unchangeable white, distinguish it from I. eandidus,
Weinm.
3. I. obliquus, Fr. ; effused, crustaceous, adnate, white, becoming
pallid; circumference byssoid; teeth springing from
a porous base, compressed, unequal, incised, oblique.—Bolt. t.
1 6 7 ./. 1.
On fallen branches. Not common. Berwick, Dr. Johnston.
Linlithgowshire, Dr. Bauchop.
29. EADULUM, Fr.
Tubercles rude, irregular, commonly elongated and cylindrical,
obtuse, waxy.
1. E. orbiculare, Fr. ; in the autumn effused, orbicular,
confluent, white, then yellowish ; circumference byssoid ; tu bercles
elongated, irregular, roundish, scattered or fasciculate ;
in the spring waxy, smooth, flesh-coloured ; tubercles shorter
and broader.—Grev. t. 278.
On dead branches of birch. Not uncommon in some districts.
3. E. qnercinnm, Fr. ; roundish, then widely confluent,
innate, crustaceous, becoming smooth, white, then pallid ; tu bercles
roundish, elongated, stout, obtuse, scattered or fasciculate,
irregular, floccoso-villous at the tips.—Raii Syn. t. 1.
/• 4 .
On branches of oak. Rare. Chester, A. B. Hill. East
Bergholt, etc. Hydnum Barba-Jovis, Sow., belongs to this
species.
30. PHLEBIA, Fr.
Hymenium soft and waxy (suhgelatinous), spread over persistent
crest-like wrinkles or veins, whose edge is entire.
1. P. merismoides, Fr. ; effused, flesh-coloured, then livid,
white and villous beneath ; circumference orange, strigose ;
wrinkles simple, straight, crowded.—Grev. t. 280; Huss. ii.
t. 44.
On old stumps and decayed branches, often running over
mosses. Rare. Thin, almost tremelloid when fresh.
3. P. radiata, Fr. ; suborbicular, equal, smooth on either
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