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Sweden: Stockholm, L. Romell, 116, 138, 162, 163, 164, 183, 191, 



193, 203, 212, 215. 

 Austria: Natters, Tirol, V. Litschauer, under the name Gloeo- 



cystidium praetermissum. 

 Canada: Ottawa, /. Macoun, 42, 313; St. Lawrence Valley, /. 



Macoun, 41- 

 New Hampshire: Chocorua, W. G. Farlow, 5. 

 New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 

 District of Columbia: Washington, C. J. Humphrey, 2525 (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 20383). 

 Montana: Trego, J. R. Weir, 11969 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



63227). 

 Idaho: Coolin, J. R. Weir, 11512 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



63287); Priest River, /. R. Weir, 139 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 63468). 

 Oregon: Portland, C. J. Humphrey, 6127. 

 Washington: Falcon Valley, W. N. Suksdorf, 724. 

 Bermuda: Paget Marsh, on Sabal, H. H. Whetzel, Ao, Ahd (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 58719, 58906). 

 Jamaica: Troy and Tyre, W. A. Murrill & W. Harris, 1053, in 



part, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



88. P. tenuis (Pat.) Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 25: 149. 

 1889. 



Cortidum tenue Patouillard, Rev. Myc. 7: 152. 1885; Tab. 

 Anal. Fung. 1: 203. /. 462. 1886; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 632. 

 1889. — Kneiffia tenuis (Pat.) Bresadola, Ann. Myc. 1: 105. 1903. 

 — Gloeocystidium tenue (Pat.) v. Hohnel & Litschauer, Wiesner 

 Festschr. Wien, 70. 1908; Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. 

 Bui. 28:364. 1913. 



Fructifications effused, closely adnate, thin, white, drying 

 whitish to pale pinkish buff, somewhat pruinose, the margin 

 thinning out; in section 60-180 [x thick, not colored, with the 

 hyphae erect, branching, 3-4 (x in diameter, thin-walled, not 

 incrusted; gloeocystidia 20-60 x 6-8 [x, flexuous; cystidia hair- 

 like, cylindric, 4-6 [l in diameter, protruding 20-45 [i beyond 

 the basidia, incrusted about the tip ; spores hyaline, even, curved, 

 8-10 X 4-41^ [x. 



Fructifications 2-6 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide. 



