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Brown jagged Thelephora.
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G EN E R IC CHARACTER.
Hymenium cum pileo homogeneum et concretum, undique fructijicatione obsitum,
inaquahile, suhpapilhsum. “ Sporidia quaternata fusco-purpurea.”
Hymenium of the same substance, and not distinct from the pileus, every
where covered with the fructification, uneven, somewhat papillose.
Sporidia in fours, brownish-purple.
s p e c i f i c c h a r a c t e r .
T h e l e p h o r a laciniata; /errMg-inca/iic«, piléis dimidiatis, imbrieatis, fhroso-
squamosis, marine laciniatis.
T h. dark ferruginous-brown, the pileus dimidiate, imbricated, somewhat
scaly with fibres, laciniated at tbe margin.
T helephora laciniata, Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 567.—Alb. et Schwein. p. 273.—
Fries, Syst. Mycol. v. 1. p. 431.
T helephora c aryophyllea, v. /3, Pers. Myc. Furop. 1. p. 112.
T helephora mesenteriformis, Fl. Han. t. 1198.
CoRTiciuM la c in iatum , Pers. Ohs. Mycol. 1. p. 39-
A u r i c u l a r i a Caryophyllea, Sow. Fung. f 2 \ 3 .—Purt. Midi. Fl. v. 3. p. 261.
in part.
H elvella caryophyllea, Bolt. Fung. 1. 173. very bad.
H elvella pineti, Linn. Sp. PL 2. 1649.
M erulius caryophylleus. With. Bot. Arr. v. 4. p. 200. quoad syn. Bolt.
H ab. On the ground, and on the exposed roots of trees chiefiy in fir woods
and subalpina situations, b u t tolerably frequent every where.
Plant of a ferruginous dark brown hue. Pileus 1-2 inches in breadth,
somewhat irregular, dimidiate, often imbricated, more or less lobed, the
surface roughish with adnate somewhat scaly dark fibres; at the margin
laciniate, the substance somewhat thin and pliable. Hymenmm uneven,
rugose, thickly set with small papiUae. Sporidia brown, about
four in number, contained in distinct asci. In the young state, the pileus
is paler, especially at the margin, which indeed often continues
paler to the last.