164 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 9 
TYPE LOCALITY: Lapland. 
HasitaT: On decaying trunks of Adnus, ee ek ‘ Hatope 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Canada to New York; also in northern Hurope. ; 
Exsiccati: P. Karst. Fungi Fenn. 244; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 804; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 
2017 ; Rab.-Wint.-Paz. Fungi Bur. 394. 
2. Plicatura faginea (Schrad.) P. Karst. Finl. Basidsv. 342. 1889. 
Merulius fagineus Schrad. Spic. Fl. Germ. 137. 1794. 
Chanterel crispus Pers, Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 106. 1794. 
Trogia crispa Fries, Monogr. Hymen. Suec. 2: 244. 1863. 
Pilei crowded, subimbricate, usually sessile, persisting, reviving when moistened, 1-2 
cm. broad; surface reddish-yellow or tan, paler toward the margin, often whitish-villose 
when young; margin beautifully lobed: context fleshy-membranaceous, tough, thin, white; 
lamellae white, narrow, vein-like, irregular, continuous or interrupted, sometimes branched, 
edges crisped, obtuse, white or bluish-gray : spores cylindric, smooth, hyaline, 4X1z. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Germany. 
HasiraT: On dead limbs and trunks of birch, alder, beech, etc. 7 
DISTRIBUTION: Canada to North Carolina and west to Wisconsin and Colorado; also in 
Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi p/.39,; Pat. Tab. Fung. /. J/, Pers. Ic. Descr. Fung. 
PLB, ST. 
ExsiccaTi: Rav. Fungi Car. 5: 27; P. Karst. Fungi Fenn. 207; Shear, N. Y¥. Fungi 209 ; 
Underw. & Cook, Illust. Fungi 8; Ellis, N. Am. Fungi. 120? ; Sydow, Myc. Mar. 3#27; Roum. 
Fungi Gall. 602, 1401, 3301. 
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3. Plicatura-gaadelupensis (Pat.) Murrill. 
Xerolus guadelupensis Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 15: 195. 1899. 
Pileus imbricate, flabelliform, sessile, coriaceous-membranaceous, flexible, 3-5 cm. 
broad; surface reddish-brown or brown, short-hispid with scattered, hairy tubercles com- 
posed of colorless, unicellular, obtuse filaments ; margin straight, entire, striate: lamellae 
distant, narrow, fold-like, obtuse, very unequal, interveined, white stained with brown: 
spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 10 <8; basidia elongate, clavate, 45-60; cystidia slen- 
der, pointed, septate, not prominent. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Guadeloupe. 
Hasitat: On Vitex divaricata. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
4. Plicatura flabelliformis (Berk. & Rav.) Murrill. 
Chanterel flabelliformis Berk. & Rav.; Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 12: 425. 1853. 
Pileus thin, tough, laterally stipitate, oblong-flabelliform, 12-15 mm. long, 1 cm. 
broad; surface white, tomentose, with a few shallow, concentric furrows; margin thin, 
slightly lobed: lamellae superficial, forking and anastomosing, yellowish: stipe clothed 
and colored like the pileus, tapering downward, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. thick. ; 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
HaBitaT: On fallen trunks. 
DISTRIBUTION : South Carolina. 
EXSICCATI: Rav. Fungi Car. 3: 5. 
5. Plicatura lateritia (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Nerotus lateritius Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 303. 1868. 
ANerolus viticola Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 1: 34. 1872. (Type from South Carolina.) 
Pileus suborbicular, vertically affixed, 6-18 mm, broad; surface nearly glabrous, dark 
brick-red near the base, lighter toward the margin, which is subsulcate, faintly striate, 
subincurved, not readily expanding: context thin, tough; lamellae distant, broad, deep 
brick-red, subserrulate on the edge, some of them bifurcate near the outer end: spores 
globose, smooth, ochraceous, 4-5 » in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
HABITAT: Dead trunks, especially of Carpinus and Iitis. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern United States and tropical America. 
ExsiccaTi: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1590; Rab.-Wint.-Paz. F i . i 
Car. 4: 3; Rav. Fungi Am. 474. : a a 
