. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. MERULIUS. 227 GENUS XXVIII.—Favolus (faints, honeycomb). Fr. Elench. p. 44. Hymenium reticulato-cellular, or alveolate. Alveoli radiating, lormed of the densely anastomosing gills, elongated. Spores white (in pairs?). Dimidiate, somewhat stipitate, fleshy, pliant, annual, growing on wood, differing in entire appearance and structure from the preceding genera, wherefore they were for- merly referred not to Polypori, but to Cantharelli or Merulii. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 590. No British species. Favolus. GENUS XXIX.—Merulius. Fr.


. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. MERULIUS. 227 GENUS XXVIII.—Favolus (faints, honeycomb). Fr. Elench. p. 44. Hymenium reticulato-cellular, or alveolate. Alveoli radiating, lormed of the densely anastomosing gills, elongated. Spores white (in pairs?). Dimidiate, somewhat stipitate, fleshy, pliant, annual, growing on wood, differing in entire appearance and structure from the preceding genera, wherefore they were for- merly referred not to Polypori, but to Cantharelli or Merulii. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 590. No British species. Favolus. GENUS XXIX.—Merulius. Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 326. Meruiius. Hymenophore formed from a woven mucedinous mycelium, covered with the waxy-soft, continuous hymenium which is reticulated on the surface with ob- tuse folds, imperfectly porous, at length gyrose and obsoletely toothed. Growing on wood, soft, mucedinous, at tJie first at least resupinate. Fr. Hym. Eur. -p. 591. I. LEPTOSPORI (Aeri-rd?, fine, Slight ; Tropog, a pore. From the shallow pore-like folds). Hymenium naked or obsoletely pruinose with the white spores. * Pileus effuso-reflexed, circumference de- terminate. ** Resitpinato-effused, flaxy-membranace- \ ous, separating, flaxy beneath and at the circumference. *** Crustoso-adnate, somewhat fla^•y at the circumference. II. CONIOPHORI (KOVLS, dust ; $e>w, to bear). Hymenium pulverulent with the fer- ruginous spores. All LXX. Mernlhis lachrymans. One- third natural size. I.—LEPTOSPORI. Hymenium naked, &c. * Pileus effuso-reflexed, circumference determinate. 1. M. tremellosus Schrad.—White, resupinate then free or reflexed, fleshy - tremellose, tomentose, margin dentato-radiate. Folds porous, various, ruddy. Sporting in form, becoming pale in hidden places, but easily recognised by its gelatinoso-cartilaginous Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance o


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