128 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 9 
age; margin thin, undulate to lobed at times: context very thin, white, membranous, 
scarcely a mm. thick; furrows slightly anastomosing when very young, 1-2 mm. broad, 
3-10 mm. deep, edges thin, entire to undulate, slightly notched with age, cremeous within, 
ochroleucous to sordid-ochraceous without: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 6“; hyphae 
8; cystidia none. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. 
HABITAT: Various forms of dead deciduous wood ; rarely on coniferous wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Temperate North America; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Sow. Engl. Fungi p/. 182. 
ExsiccaTi: Rav, Fungi Am. 4/5; Rav. Fungi Car. 14; Westend. & Wall. Herb. Crypt. 145; 
Rab.-Wint. Fungi Eur. 3529, Sydow, Myc. Mar. 3214, 4607 ; Roum. Fungi Gall. 2008 ; Karst. Finl. 
Fungi 722; Ellis, N. Am, Fungi2,; Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 702; Shear, N. Y. Fungi 25. 
2. Lenzites betuliniformis Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus thin, coriaceous to woody, sessile, dimidiate, imbricate, conchate, 2-3 K 3-5 X 
0.3-0.5 cm.; surface velvety, tomentose, narrowly multizonate, smooth, isabelline to avel- 
laneous, some of the zones slightly darker; margin thin, fertile, rarely lobed: context 
white, membranous, scarcely a mm. thick; furrows ochraceous within, frequently anasto- 
mosing both in front and behind and interrupted by pores and bifurcations, 0.5-1 mm. 
broad, 2-3 mm. deep, edges thin, undulate to lacerate, often porose. 
Type collected at Jalapa, Mexico, on dead wood, C. L. Smith 24. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
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3. Lenzites cubensis Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. 
Soc. 10: 303. 1868. 
Pileus rigid, corky to woody, dimidiate to flabelliform, applanate or convex, 
4X6 0.3-0.5 cm.; surface subvelvety, zonate, rugose, finely tomentose, isabelline; margin 
thin, ochraceous, fertile: context soft-corky to membranous, 1-2 mm. thick, isabelline in 
type specimens; furrows repeatedly forked, 1 mm. broad, edges crenate or crisped, broad, 
concolorous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
HABITAT: Dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
4, Lenzites Earlei Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus thin, dry, membranaceons, flexible, dimidiate, 350.5 cm.; surface glabrous, 
smooth, finely zonate, white; margin very thin, uneven, reddish-brown, multizonate, pel- 
lucid on the extreme border: context thin, white, membranous, scarcely a mm. thick ; 
furrows not anastomosing at the base, very narrow and long, porose or forked at the mar- 
gin, 0.3-0.5 mm. broad, 2-5 mm. deep, edges white, crisped, very thin, lacerate-fimbriate 
with age. 
Type collected at Port Antonio, Jamaica, on a fence post, November, 1902, F. le 52! 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. , Oe 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Lenzites tenuts Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. 5: 122. 1846. Type from Guadeloupe. Authentic 
material is to be seen at Paris, but this is insufficient to definitely locate or properly 
‘ ; a s describe 
the species. Lenziles cubensis is probably its nearest known relative ; 
77. GLOEOPHYLLUM Karst. Bidr. Finl. Nat. Folk 37: x, 79, 1882 
Sesta Adans. Fam. 2:10; hyponym. 1763. , 
Serda Adans. Fam.2: 11; hyponym. 1763. 
Lenzitina Karst. Finl. Basidsv. 337. 1889. 
Hymenophore small, annual, epixylous, sessile; surface hair 
often zonate: context tough, brown ; hymenium normally 
quently poroid in some species: spores smooth, hyaline. 
Type species, Lenzites saepiaria Fries. 
y or glabrous, anoderm, 
lamelloid or daedaleoid, but fre- 
