. British fungi (Hymenomycetes). Fungi -- Great Britain. 248 HYDNEI. sistotrema. Genus XXXV.—Sistotrema (sisto, to place; rprjfxa, a pore. From the arrangement of the pores). Pers.—Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 426. Fleshy, with an inferior hymenium spread over teeth resem- bling broken gills. Gills somewhat waxy, irregularly arranged (not radiating), distinct, bent, easily rubbed off from the pileus. Sporo- phores 4-spored, spores oval. Irreg- ular inform or dimidiate. A genus nearest to Irpex, but clearly distinct by reason of the gill- like, irregularly arranged, distinct, non-concatenate teeth, and
. British fungi (Hymenomycetes). Fungi -- Great Britain. 248 HYDNEI. sistotrema. Genus XXXV.—Sistotrema (sisto, to place; rprjfxa, a pore. From the arrangement of the pores). Pers.—Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 426. Fleshy, with an inferior hymenium spread over teeth resem- bling broken gills. Gills somewhat waxy, irregularly arranged (not radiating), distinct, bent, easily rubbed off from the pileus. Sporo- phores 4-spored, spores oval. Irreg- ular inform or dimidiate. A genus nearest to Irpex, but clearly distinct by reason of the gill- like, irregularly arranged, distinct, non-concatenate teeth, and by the fleshy substance. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 618. IX-2- wMmPw T V W wmwfif. LXXVI. Sistotrema conflaens. Natural size. Section twice natural size. 1. S. confluens Pers. — Entire, shining white. Pileus cent- {Yz-\ in.) broad, fleshy, irregular, horizontal, villous. Stem cent. (1 in.) and less long, somewhat ex- centric. Gills (tooth - like plates) flexuous, changeable in form. Simple, but caespitose and growing into each other. On the ground and sticks. Uncommon. Autumn. At length yellowish or tinged with brown. Tooth-like plates of the hymenium entire or jagged. Grev. Name—confluo, to flow together. Con- fluent. Pers. Syn. p. 551. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 619. Syst. Myc. i. p. 426. Berk. Out. p. 262. C. Hbk. n. 869. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 821. Grev. t. 248. —Bull. t. 1. Sow. t. 112. irpex. Genus XXXVI.—Irpex (irfiex, a harrow). Fr. Elench. p. 142. Hymenium inferior, toothed from the first. Teeth firm, some- what coriaceous, acute, concrete with the pileus, arranged in rows or like network, connected at the base by folds, which are gill-like (in sessile species) or resemble honeycomb (in resu- pinate ones). Sporophores 4-spored. Growing on wood, some- what sessile or resupinate, approachi?ig Lenzites and Dcedalece. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo
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