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CRYPTOGAMIA Algos.
Gen* Char* Receptacles capitate, stalked, totally different
in substance and colour from the crust, with
a border of their own substance; disk powdery.
Spec. Char. Crust very thin, white, powdery. Receptacles
lenticular, pale reddish brown, clothed
with white powder; their stalks slender, powdery,
at length naked and brownish.
Syn. Calicium cantherellum. Ach. Meth. 96.
C. peronellum. Ach, Meth. 96. Winch v. 2. 42.
C. pallidum. Pers. in Ust. Ann. fa sc . 7 . 20. t. 3.
f j j 2.
Lichen cantherellus. Ach. Prodr. 85,
M r .WINCH is the only British writer Who mentions thias
species, as found on decayed wood, near Eggleston, Durham.
Nothing can he more distinct, from all we have hitherto figured
Of the same genus. The crust is white, powdery, or, as Persoon
says, downy, but very thin and evanescent. Stalks ascending,
not very slender, of a light red brown, clothed with white deciduous
powder. Heads convex above and below, but not globose,
their disk of a light reddish brown, or pale cinnamon-colour,
clothed at first with copious, dense, white powder, which after
a while disappears.
We unite without scruple two species of Acharius, on the
authority of specimens sent by himself, and in conformity to a
hint of his own in the Methodus.
2Ssy.