Peesoon, after describing this I'helephora as a distinct
species in his Tentamen Dispositionis Methodica; Fungorum,
became doubtful, in the Synopsis Fungorum, whether it might
not be a variety of Thelephora calcea; but in his recent My-
cologia Europasa, he again considers it as distinct. In the mean
time, between the publication of the Synopsis and the Myco-
logia. F r ie s named it Thelephora cretaeea, in his Observa-
tiones Mycologicie, and observed that it was “ vere distincta
species.” Yet I cannot find it mentioned in any way in the
Systema Myeologicum of that author.
Fig. 1. Thelephora Sambuci, growing m wood. Fig. 2. The same on soil,
natural size. Fig. 3. A portion o f a plant. Fig. 4 . Thecas. Fig. 5. Thecæ
with Sporidia. Fig. 6 . Sporidia ; magnified.
