1926] 



BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XV 313 



Fructifications gregarious or cespitose; pileus thin, coriaceous- 

 fleshy, depressed or subinfundibuliform, sometimes split on one 

 side, slightly floccose-squamulose or fibrillose, grayish or grayish 

 brown, becoming light drab in the herbarium, wavy or lobed on 

 the margin, the lobes often overlapping; stem equal, solid, colored 

 like the pileus; hymenium uneven or shallowly radiately venose, 

 decurrent, drying light pinkish cinnamon; no setae nor cystidia; 

 basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores hyaline, even, flattened on one 

 side, 6-9 X 4^-6 ti. 



Fructifications when dried 13^-2 cm. high; pileus 4-13 mm. in 

 diameter; stem 8-14 mm. long, 1-13^ mm. thick. 



On ground under trees of Fagus. New York and Delaware. 

 July and August. 



Peck noted this species as related to C. sinuosus, from which it 

 differs in smaller size, solid and darker-colored stem, and slightly 

 smaller spores. The fructifications are apparently plentiful when 

 found, for some 30 fructifications of various sizes comprise each 

 gathering. 



Specimens examined : 

 New York: New York Botanical Garden, New York, Peck & 



Earle, 1064 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., Mo. Bot Gard. Herb., 



and Burt Herb.). 

 Delaware: Wilmington, A. Commons, 2718, type (in N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb.). 



C. turbinatus Burt, n. sp. 



Type: in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Pileus solitary, stipitate, coriaceous-corky, cylindric-turbinate, 

 solid, with the margin erect, lobed, thinner, and the disk depressed, 

 drying snuff-brown to Front's brown, glabrous, even ; flesh drying 

 pale Saccardo's umber, and with a fragrant, pronounced odor, 

 and taste not noteworthy; lamellae decurrent, distant, narrow, 

 about 1 mm. broad in the dried specimen, thin, about 2-4 mm. 

 apart, not connected nor with venose interspaces, concolorous 

 with the pileus, with colored conducting organs in the subhy- 

 menial tissue; basidia simple, with at least 2 sterigmata demon- 

 strated; spores slightly colored, even, globose, 5-6 \l in diameter; 

 stem not sharply differentiated from the pileus, solid, contracting 

 abruptly below, glabrous. 



