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BURT — THE THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XIV 233 



8069, 8072, 8235, 14392, 14393; Earner, H. D. House (in N. Y. 



State Mus. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 54373); New 



York, Bronx Park, L. M. Underwood (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61592, and Burt Herb.). 

 New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, J 87, D 81, comm. by Farlow 



Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 8266, 14689, 7458), and in 



Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 409. 

 Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, A. S. Rhoads, comm. by L. O. 



Overholts, 2679 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 5919). 

 Maryland: Takoma Park, C. L. Shear, 1271, 1272. 

 District of Columbia: Chive Chose, J. R. Weir, 372 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 17649). 

 Virginia: Chain Bridge, A. S. Rhoades, comm. by L. 0. Overholts, 



3969 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 54986). 

 Florida : W. W. Calkins, comm. by U. S. Dept. Agr. Herb. 

 Alabama: Montgomery, R. P. Burke, 127, 157 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 5499, 44964). 

 Iowa: Woodbine, C. J. Humphrey & C. W. Edgerton, comm. by 



C. J. Humphrey, 6511, 6546 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 11063, 



11276). 

 Washington: Bingen, W. N. Suksdorf, 894, 900. 



18. P. Sambuci (Pers.) Burt, n. comb. 



Corticium Sambuci Persoon, Roemer Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 111. 

 1794; Fries, Epicr. 565. 1838; Hym. Eur. 660. 1874; Berkeley, 

 Outlines Brit. Fung. 276. 1860; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 

 27: 137. 1890; Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 4: 115. pi 3, 

 f.1,2. 1913 ; Rea, Brit. Basid. 677. 1922.— Thelephor a Sambuci 

 Persoon, Syn. Fung. 581. 1801; Myc. Eur. 1: 152. 1822 (in 

 subgenus Corticium). — Hypochnus Sambuci (Pers.) Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 6: 656. 1888. — Thelephora sera Persoon, Syn. Fung. 580. 

 1801; Myc. Eur. 1: 151. 1822 (in subgenus Corticium). — Cor- 

 ticium serum (Pers.) Bresadola, I. R. Accad. Agiati Atti III. 3: 

 112. 1897; Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 27: 246. 1911. 



Fructifications effused, closely adnate, incrusting, not separ- 

 able, snow-white or chalk-white, sometimes becoming pale 

 cream-color in the herbarium, granular and pruinose, the margin 

 thinning out; in section 100-250 [l thick, not colored, composed 



