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BURT — THE THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XIV 325 



N. Y. State Mus. Herb., T 32, and Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 



54656) ; Yates, C. H. Peck, 33. 

 Pennsylvania: Delaware Water Gap, W, A. Murrill, comm. by 



N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61469). 

 New Jersey: Newfield, /. B. Ellis, comm. by W. G. Farlow (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 7764, 14290, 14770). 

 District of Columbia: Takoma Park, C. L. Shear, 1348. 

 Alabama: Montgomery, R. P. Burke, 1^5 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 10359). 

 Kentucky: Crittenden, C. G. Lloyd, 3120. 

 South Dakota: Sylvan Lake, Custer, J. R. Weir, 10011 (in Mo. 



Bot. Gard. Herb., 55792). 

 Idaho : Priest River, /. R. Weir, 30. 

 British Columbia: Squamish, J. Macoun, ^97, 534 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 55182, 55181). 

 Oregon: Eugene, C. J. Humphrey, 1051. 



94. P. carnosa Burt, n. sp. 



Tjrpe: in Burt Herb., Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., and N. Y. State 

 Mus. Herb. 



Fructifications long and broadly effused, thick, fleshy-mem- 

 branaceous, adnate, barium-yellow to honey-yellow, of the same 

 color within where cracked, the margin determinate, thinning 

 out, somewhat radiate-fibrillose; in section 400-700 \x. thick, 

 colored like the hymenium in thick sections but very thin sec- 

 tions hyaline, somewhat zoned, composed of a very broad hyphal 

 layer bearing a hjrtnenial layer 50-60 (x thick, the hyphae hyaline, 

 5-6 [X in diameter; no gloeocystidia; cystidia hair-like, not in- 

 crusted, tapering to a sharp tip, 4 [i, in diameter at the base, 

 protruding up to 30 \i. beyond the basidia, very numerous in the 

 hjrmenial surface; basidia 4-spored; spores white in spore col- 

 lection, even, 4-5 X 2-23/^ (x. 



Fructifications 3-12 cm. long, 1^-6 cm. wide. 



On bark and wood of coniferous logs such as Pinus, Abies, 

 Picea, Pseudotsuga, Juniperus, and Larix, rarely on frondose 

 species. In mountains of New England, New York, Minnesota, 

 and British Columbia and Montana to New Mexico. May to 

 October. Common in the Rocky Mountain forests. 



