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920. Auziculazia lobata. Somm. “ Lobed Auricularia.”
Pileus effuso-reflexed, lobed, variegated witb strigose or to-
mentose, velvety or smootb zones, brownish-wbite ; bymenium
¿ r « < 1 8 / . Î F r .E p ic r .p . 555. Berk.
On bark of trees. Staunton.
Very nearly allied to Auricularia mesenterica.
4 1 - CORTICIUM, Fr.
Hymenium soft and flesby,
swollen wben moist, collapsing
and becoming even wben dry,
often rimose. (Fig. 84.)
Fig. 84.
Sect. 1 . Apus.
9 2 1 . Cozticium evolvens. Fr. “ Unfolding Corticium.”
Soft, resupinate, submarginate, floccose witb pallid down • hv-
menium zoneless, naked, smootb, somewbat rugose, brown, be-
wben dry.—Fr. Epic r.p. 557. Ann. N I I
no. 1029. Schmiz. Sturm, t. 7. Fr. Ohs. i. t. 4 ,/. 5. F l. Dan. t. 840,
On dead cberry. Jan. King’s Cliffe.
[Low. & Mid. Carolina.]
Sect. 2. Himantia.
9 2 2 . Cozticium giganteum. Fr. “ Large Corticium.”
Broadly effused, swelling wben moist, waxy, byaline, white,
cartilagmous or papery wben dry, free, milk-white; ciroumfer!
ence strigoso-radiate ; bymenium even, continuous.—Fr. Epicr.
p. 560. Moug. exs. no. 778. Desm. exs. no. 417. Thelephora
gigantea, Eng. F l. r .p . 170.
On pine stems. Common. [United States.]
Circumference very broad and almost byssoid, witb here and there a tendency
to become strigoso-radiate.
923. Co z ticium la c te um . Fr. “ Milk-white Corticium.”
Effused, membranaceous, milk wbite beneath, and circumference
loosely fibrillose ; bymenium waxy, darker, cracked wben
dry.—Fr. E pic r.p. 560. Babh. F .E . no. 1212. Berk. exs. no. 250.
Thel. lactea, A nn.N .H .no. 81.
On trunks.
Easily known by its smooth, white hymenium, covering a stratum consisting
of thick fibrillæ.—M. J . B.
924, Co r ticium a r a ch n o id eum , Berli. “ Web-like Corticium.”
Effused, delicately byssoid, as also the circumference ; hymenium
wbite, very tbin, patchy.—Dgr^. Outl.p. 273. Ann. N .H . no.
287. t.9 . f . 3 .
In woods. [United States.]
Running over lichens, &c., the mycelium as delicate as a spider’s web.
Forming delicate, effused, arachnoid patches of a snowy white; threads
by no means forming fibres, but spreading like a delicate web, and often
remaining barren, but under favourable circumstances giving rise to a
smooth, even hymenium, consisting of elliptic sporophores arranged in little
bunches.—M. J. B.
9 2 5 . Co r ticium læ v e , Fr. “ Even Corticium,”
Effused, membranaceous, seceding, villoso-fibrillose beneath ;
circumference byssoid, not radiating ; hymenium even, smooth,
flesh-coloured and livid.—Fr. E pic r.p. 560. Babh. F .E . no. 120.
Berk. exs. no. 246. Letell. t. 630. f . 1. Thel. loevis, Ann. N .H . no.80.
On decayed wood, sticks, &c. Common. [United States.]
This is the commonest of all the species, and assumes a variety of forms.
Sometimes it remains closely attached, sometimes the margin is broadly reflexed.
The hymenium varies also in colour, being sometimes pure white.
The circumference is occasionally almost naked.—M .J .B .
9 2 6 . C o z tic ium z o seum . P. “ Rosy Corticium.”
Effused, adnate, rosy; circumference fringed, whitish ; hymenium
pruinose, growing pale, at length much cracked and corrugated,
indurated.—E r. Epicr. p. 560. E l. exs. no. 1516. Thelephora
rosea, Eng. F l. v. p. 168.
On poplar, &c. [Mid. Carolina.]
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