[Vol. 12 

 274 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Specimens examined: 

 Jamaica: A. E. Wight, type, comm. by W. G. Farlow; Castleton 

 Gardens, F. S. Earle, 24O, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



53. P. sanguinea (Fr.) Bresadola in v. Hohnel & Litschauer, 

 K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 115: 1588, 1589. 1906; Bour- 

 dot & Galzin, Sec. Myc. Fr. Bui. 28 : 395. 1913; Rea, Brit. Basid. 

 690. 1922. 



Thelephora sanguinea Fries, Elenchus Fung. 1: 203. 1828. — 

 Corticium sanguineum Fries, Epicr. 561. 1838; Hym. Eur. 650. 

 1874; Icones Hym. 2: 97. pi. 198 J. 2. 1877; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 

 612. 1888; Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 4: 119. pi. 3, f. 

 18-20. 1913. — Kneiffia sanguinea (Fries) Bresadola, Ann. Myc. 

 1: 101. 1903. — Corticium glabrum Berkeley & Curtis, Grevillea 

 1: 178. 1873; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 620. 1888; Massee, Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 142. 1890. — (In part) Corticium Petersii 

 Berkeley & Curtis, Grevillea 1: 177. 1873. 



Fructification effused, somewhat membranaceous, tender, 

 dragon's-blood red, substance arachnoid, the margin byssoid or 

 fibrillose and often connected with mycelial strands of blood-red 

 color which stain the wood red, h5rmenium drying light buff and 

 pinkish buff to buff-pink; in section 200-500 [i thick, not colored, 

 with the hyphae loosely arranged, 3-6 [x in diameter, and with 

 some granule-incrusted, rarely nodose-septate; cystidia hair-like, 

 not incrusted usually, about 43/^ [l in diameter, protruding 20- 

 30 [i] spores white in spore collection, even, 4-5 X 2-23^ [x. 



Fructifications 2-10 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide. 



On dead wood and fallen branches especially of conifers. 

 Europe, New Hampshire to Louisiana, and in Oregon. July to 

 January. Infrequent. 



P. sanguinea and P. miniata may be recognized by the blood- 

 red color of the young fructifications, the more or less numerous 

 red mycelial strands, and the wood stained red. Later in fertile 

 stage the hymenium tends toward a buff color with a tinge of red. 

 In section P. sanguinea shows granule-incrusted hyphae more or 

 less numerous among other even-walled hyphae, while P. miniata 

 contains no incrusted hyphae. 



Specimens examined: 



