1925] 



BURT THE THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XIV 301 



Florida: W. W. Calkins. 



Alabama: Montgomery, R. P. Burke, 13 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 17193). 

 Ohio: Preston, C. G. Lloyd, 1555; West Elkton, L. 0. Overholts, 



3164 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 5712). 

 Indiana: Crawfordsville, D. Reddick, 6, 8, 13, 14- 

 Illinois: River Forest, E. T. & S. A. Harper, 631. 

 Michigan: Ann Arbor, C. H. Kaufman. 

 Wisconsin: Blue Mounds, E. T. & S. A. Harper, 871. 

 Minnesota: Princeton, C. J. Humphrey, 899 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 21044). 

 Missouri: Columbia, B. M. Duggar, 561; Meramec Highlands, 



P. Spaulding (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 63746); Pickering, 



E. Bartholomew, 6425 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55195); 



St. Louis, N. M. Glatfelter, 1377, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



Herb.; E. A. Burt (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44073). 

 South Dakota: Custer, /. R. Weir, 10019 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 55799). 

 Idaho : Priest River, /. R. Weir, 37; St. Maries, /. R. Weir, 560 



(in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 63179). 

 Japan: Bungo, A. Yasuda, 107 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



57024). 



77. P. Allescheri Bresadola, Fungi Trid. 2: 62. pi. 172. 

 1898; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 194. 1902.— But not as understood 

 by Bourdot & Galzin and by Wakefield. 



Kneiffia Allescheri Bresadola, Ann. Myc. 1: 100. 1903. — ■ 

 Gloeopeniophora Allescheri (Bres.) v. Hohnel & Litschauer, K. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 117: 1082. 1908. 



Type: in Bresadola Herb, and Burt Herb. 



Fructifications broadly effused, membranaceous, fleshy, thick, 

 drying white to pinkish buff, sometimes contracting in drying, 

 curling away from the substratum more or less at the fissures 

 and showing the white, fibrillose subiculum, the margin white, 

 byssoid; in structure 300-1000 [x thick, composed of obliquely 

 ascending and interwoven, hyaline hyphae more or less incrusted, 

 3-6 [L in diameter; gloeocystidia elongated, flexuous, 40-100 X 

 4-7 [X, often continued beyond the deeply staining portion as an 



