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BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XV 235 



District of Columbia: Washington, C. L. Shear, 1261. 



North Carolina: Biltmore Estate, W. A. Murrill (in N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 61382). 

 Georgia: Darien, H. W. Ravenel, in Ravenel, Fungi Am. 227. 

 Florida: Gainesville, H. W. Ravenel, in Ravenel, Fungi Am., 126. 

 Louisiana: Baton Rouge, Edgerton & Humphrey, comm. by C. J. 



Humphrey, 5642; St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, comm. by 



U. S. Dept. Agr. Herb. 

 Texas: Lindheimer, Jfi (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 4819). 

 West Virginia: Paw Paw, C. L. Shear, 1175. 

 Kentucky: Crittenden, C. G. Lloyd, 2365, 3118. 

 Ohio: Cincinnati, comm. by Lloyd Herb., 2792; Loveland, D. L. 



James, comm. by U. S. Dept. Agr. Herb. 

 Illinois: Glen Ellyn, E. T. & S. A. Harper, 955; River Forest, E. 



T.&S.A. Harper, 734- 

 Michigan: Ann Arbor, C. H. Kauffman, 48 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 8083); Gogebic County, E. A. Bessey, 248 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 56613). 

 Missouri: Grandin, H. von Schrenk (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



43021). 

 Nebraska: Long Pine, C. L. Shear, 1065. 

 British Columbia : Yoho Valley, J. Macoun, 6. 

 Washington: Bellingham, J. R. Weir, 545 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 5899). 

 California: Santa Catalina Island, L. W. Nuttall, 402, in part (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 57614). 



44. C. rubicundum Burt, n. sp. 



Type: in Burt Herb. 



Fructifications broadly effused, rather thick, membranaceous, 

 loosely attached, separable, drying buff-pink to light vinaceous- 

 cinnamon, slightly tubercular, pruinose, the margin radiating, 

 whitish; in section 200-500 ix thick, not colored, with a hymenial 

 layer 60 [x thick borne on a broad layer reaching to the sub- 

 stratum and composed of interwoven, thick-walled, hyaline 

 hyphae 3-4 [x in diameter, not incrusted, occasionally nodose- 

 septate; no gloeocystidia; basidia 4-spored; spores hyaline, even, 

 4-7 X 3-41/^ (x, copious. 



