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li
t
and broad black yoins.—Tul. Hyp. f. 4, / . 6, t. 14, / . 4. Clioiro-
myces melanoxunthus, Berh. Ann. N.H. xiii.p. 859.
In oak or beech woods, often attached laterally to sticks, leaves,
&c., witliout any connection with the ground. Oct. Bowood
Park, Bristol, King’s Cliffe, and Devonshire.
About the size of a horse bean, globose, but more or less compressed and
angular, furnished with a distinct absorbent base ; externally black, clothed
with obtuse but not rigid warts, which are less manifest when the plant is
dry. Flesh of a dirty olive yellow with broad black veins, which consist of
a loose slightly branched tissue arising from hexagonal cells, the ends of the
threads of which become oblong-elliptic, distinct, pedicellate asci, containing
8 dark, globose, eehinulate, but not reticulate sporidia. Smell in some
specimens like th at of some agaric, in others strong and nauseous. The peridium
is black in every stage of growth.— J. B. ' Spores ’OlS-'Oie m.m.
diameter. (Fig. 347 seel, and sporidium,')
2 2 4 3 . P achyphloeus c itz ln u s.
phloeus.”
JB. & S r . “ Lemon Fachy-
Subglobose, minutely warted, peridium brown, powdered with
lemon-coloured particles; apex bright lemon-yellow, internally
yellowish ; interstices floccose, lemon-yellow, base rooting.—B.
& Br. Ann. N.H. xviii. p. 79. Tul. H y p .182.
In woods. Near Bristol and in Wiltshire and Devonshire.
Very nearly allied to P. melanoxantlms, which is, however, black in every
stage of growth, and has but little odour, whereas this is densely powdered
with lemon coloured particles, and has a strong smell, like that of rotting
sea weed. The orifice is generally more expanded, and is of a fine deep
lemon yellow from the exposure of the interstices of the fruotifjing veins,
and the peridium thin and brown frosted with yellow, when yonng of a uniform
gamboge yellow. In P. melanoxantlms the veins are nearly black, with
yellowish interstices, and the peridium thick, far more coarsely warted, more
compressed, and irregular in form and always black.—M.J.B.
2 2 5 0 . Pachyphloeus conglomezatus. B . 4 B r. “ Conglomerate
Paohyphlceus.”
Irregularly lobed and plicate, conglomerate, even ; peridium
rufous-brown, interstices of the lobes clothed with adpressed
silky, yellow fibres.—B. & Br. Ann. N.H. xviii. p. 80. Tul. Hyp.
p. 132.
In woods. Oct. Near Bristol.
About an inch in diamer, shortly stipitate, much lobed, and plicate as if
made up of a number of individuals, the lobes rounded, of a deep brown-
olive. Sometimes quite even, sometimes rather rough, but not the least
verrucose, interstices of the lobes clothed with adpressed silky, yellow fibres.
Asci clavate, irregular, containing eight globose, tuberculate sporidia. Sporidia
larger than in the other species ('0192 m.m.), and differing in their appearance.—
Ji. J. B.
Gen. 3 1 3 . S T E P H E N S IA , Tul.
2251.
Fig. 348.
S tep h en sia bombyclna.
Stephensia.”
Common integument
fleshy, cottony ;
base distinct ; hymenium
intricate ; asci
cylindrical ; sporidia
globose.—Tul. Hyp.
p. 129. Berh. Outl.p.
377. (Fig. 348.)
Tul. “ Strong-scented
Subglobose, depressed ; peridium rather soft, floccose, irregularly
intruded into the cavity, destitute of rooting fibres ;
gyroso-venose; s p o r i d i a pellucid, spherical. Tul. Hyp. t . l j , j .
4. Genea homhycina, Vitt. Tub. t. 8 ,f. 13, t. 4 ,/. 8. B. 8j' Br. Ann.
N.H. xiii. p. 357.
Oct. Castle Combe, Chudleigh.
Peridium floccose, rather soft, dirty white, and so much intruded as some-
times to leave no cavity. The sporidia are globose, at first smooth, at length
verrucose. With age they lose their transparency. The smell iS very strong
and disagreeable, resembling that of Melanogaster ambiguus. A small slice
of it plafed in a drop of water on the field of the
^ y a quantity of fine radiating crystals. ^
Gen. 3 1 4 .
Fig. 349.
HYDNOTRYA, B. & Br.
Common integument minutely papillose,
not distinct; hymenium complicated
with gyrose lacunae, leading
to the surface ; asci oblong ; sporidia
globose, tuberculate.—B. & Br.
Ann. N.H. xviii. p. 78. Tul. Hyp. p.
127. (Fig. 349.)
2 2 5 2 . H ydnotrya T u la sn ii. B . 4 B r. “ Tulasne’s Hydnotrya.”
Globose-depressed, base plicate, cribroso-porose, velvety rufous ;
cells large. Walls pubescent, white; trama rufous ; asci long;
sporidia globose, at length reticulated, not eehinulate.—®. & Br-
Ann. N.H. xviii.p. 78. Tul. Hyp. t. 8,/. 2, t. 14,/. 3, t. 21. Hydnoholites
Tulasnei, Berh. Ann. N. H. xiii.p. 357, no. 317. Berh. exs.
no. 302.