[Vol. 12 

 282 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Finland: Mustiala, P. A. Karsteyi, authentic specimen of Cor- 

 If- ticium sordidum. 



New York: Karner, H. D. House, I4.I88 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb., 44722). 



61. P. Burkei Burt, n. sp. 

 Type: in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Fructifications broadly effused, thin, adnate, membranaceous, 

 tender, small pieces separable when moistened, cream-buff in the 

 herbarium, somewhat tubercular, conforming to the inequalities 

 of the rough bark upon which growing, somewhat cracked in 

 drying, the margin thinning out, of finely interwoven hyphae; 

 in section 120-180 [x thick, not colored, with the hyphae suberect, 

 loosely interwoven, thin-walled, 3 [jl in diameter, nodose-septate, 

 not incrusted; no gloeocystidia; cystidia not incrusted, subulate, 

 50 X 41^-5 tJL, protruding up to 20 [;.; spores hyaline, even, 6-7 

 X 4-5 [X, copious. 



Fructifications probably large — 4 cm. long, 2-23^ cm. wide in 

 pieces broken off at both ends and on one side. 



On rough, frondose bark. Alabama. October. 



P. Burkei has some resemblance in aspect to P. cremea but has 

 a more tubercular hymenium, slenderer and more erect hyphae, 

 and larger spores. 



Specimens examined: 

 Alabama: Montgomery County, R. P. Burke, 1^7 If., type (in Mo. 



Bot. Gard. Herb., 57292). 



62. P. glebulosa Bresadola, Fungi Trid. 2: 61. pL 170, j. 2. 

 1898; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 195. 1902; Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. 

 Myc. Fr. Bui. 28: 384. 1913; Rea, Brit. Basid. 688. 1922. 



Not Thelephora calcea Fries var. glebulosa Fries, Elenchus Fung. 

 1: 215. 1828. — Not Corticium calceum Fries, Epicr. 562. 1838; 

 nor Hym. Eur. 652. 1874. 



Type: in Bresadola Herb, and Burt Herb. 



Fructifications widely effused, thin, closely adnate, whitish, 

 pinkish buff, pale olive-buff, or cream color, pubescent with the 

 cystidia, becoming cracked into small areas when dry, the margin 

 thinning out; in section 50-200 [x thick, not colored, composed 

 throughout of cystidia and rather erect, interwoven, hyaline, 



