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BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XV 199 



Specimens examined: 

 Vermont: E. A. Burt, two gatherings. 

 North Carolina: Blowing Rock, G. F. Atkinson, 4330. 

 South Carolina: On Carya, Curtis Herb., 2497 (in Kew Herb.). 

 Georgia: Tallulah Falls, A. B. Seymour, comm. by Farlow Herb., 



DD (in Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 44595). 

 Florida: Sands Key, R. A. Harper, 6 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



54537). 

 Louisiana: St. Martinville, A, B. Langlois, Q, R. 

 Arkansas: Womble, W. H. Long, 19823, 19821, in part (in Mo. 



Bot. Gard. Herb., 8633, 17801). 

 Bermuda: Walsingham, H. H. Whetzel, Aat (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 58718). 

 Cuba: presumable part of type from Montague to Berkeley (in 



Kew Herb.) ; Managua, Earle & Murrill, 26, comm. by N. Y. 



Bot. Gard. Herb. ; San Antonio de los Baiios, Havana Province, 



Earle & Murrill, 1^.6, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; San 



Diego de los Baiios, Havana Province, Earle & Murrill, 332, 



comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; locality not stated, C. G. 



Lloyd, 430 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55176). 



17. C. galactinum (Fr.) Burt, in Moffatt, Chicago Acad. 

 Sci. Bui. 7:137. 1909. 



Thelephora galactina Fries, R. Soc. Sci. Upsal. Acta III. 1 : 136. 

 1851; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 541. 1888; von Schrenk, Bot. Gaz. 

 34: 65. 1902. — An Corticium rigescens Berk. & Curtis in Cooke, 

 Grevillea20: 12. 1891? 



Type: in Fries Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications long and broadly effused, becoming rather thick, 

 coriaceous-soft, closely adnate, small pieces separable, white to 

 cream-color, waxy, even, not cracked, the margin indeterminate, 

 thinning out, with the hyphae interwoven; in section 200-1000 [x 

 thick, not colored, composed of suberect, densely interwoven, 

 hyaline hyphae about 1-2 [x in diameter, not incrusted ; no gloeo- 

 cystidia; curved ends of the hyphae or their branches form the 

 surface of the hymenium and are about 3^-1 jx in diameter; spores 

 white in spore collection, 4-53^2 X 2-3 [i. 

 i Fructifications 4-12 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide. 



