[Vol. 12 

 230 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Austria: Innsbruck, Tirol, V. Litschauer. 



France: Allier, H. Bourdot, 4073, 20807; Aveyron, A. Galzin, 



11842, 17636, conim. by H. Bourdot, 20861, 20862. 

 England: Doncaster, E. M. Wakefield (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



57118). 

 Maine: Kittery Point, R. Thaxter & E. A. Burt. 

 New York: East Berne, C. H. Peck (in N. Y. State Mus. Herb., 



and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 14859). 

 Florida: Royal Palm Hummock, W. A. Murrill, 105, comm. by 



N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 62105). 

 Louisiana: Baton Rouge, C. J. Humphrey, 2529 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 20690); St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, br, dk. 

 Montana: Columbia Falls, C. J. Humphrey, 7239 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 12526). 

 Idaho: Coolin, J. R. Weir, 11255, 11541 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 63259, 63296). 

 Washington: Olympia, C. J. Humphrey, 6339. 

 Cuba: C. G. Lloyd, 436 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55169). 

 Jamaica: Blue Hole, W. A. Murrill, 231, comm. by N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb. 

 Grenada: Grand Etang, R. Thaxter, comm. by W. G. Farlow, 5. 



15. P. asperipilata Burt, n. sp. 



Type: in Burt Herb, and U. S. Dept. Agr. Herb. 



Fructifications effused, very thin, closely adnate, snow-white, 

 velvety, the margin thinning out; in section 45-60 '^ thick, not 

 colored, composed of somewhat erect, loosely interwoven, thin- 

 walled hyphae 3 [x in diameter, not incrusted, occasionally nodose- 

 septate, which terminate in cystidia and clusters of basidia form- 

 ing a hymenium barely continuous; no gloeocystidia; cystidia 

 hair-like, slender, tapering to a sharp point, conspicuously den- 

 ticulate or rough, 30-60 X 3-5 [x, protruding up to 50 \i. beyond 

 the basidia, very numerous; basidia 4-spored; spores hyaline, 

 even, subglobose, 33^^-4 -^ in diameter. 



Fructifications 1-2J^ cm. in diameter in the fragmentary 

 specimens known to me. 



On rough bark of a frondose species. Louisiana and Texas. 

 April and May. Rare. 



