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6. Hymenium drab, becoming sage-green when crushed in 7 per cent potas- 

 sium hydrate solution; pileus pinkish buff to cinnamon-brown with a 



broad pale margin 16. T. cuticularis 



6. Hymenium ferruginous brown (Rood's brown) to fuscous 7 



7. Pileus, when squamulose, with the fibers matted and agglutinated into ap- 

 pressed and wholly adnate squamules, margin dilated and whitish fimbriate 



becoming entire and concolorous 17. T. intybacea 



7. Pileus not zonate, fibrous-squamulose and usually strigose, margin fibrous- 



fimbriate 18. T. terrestris 



7. Pileus zonate, in other respects resembling the preceding species 



19. T. griseozonata 

 8. Incrusting and ascending small plants, free branches somewhat terete but 



flattened towards the tips; spores umbrinous SO. T.fimbriata 



8. Resupinate on leaves and twigson the ground and sending up free, simple 



or branching trunks; spores fuscous. Known from Cuba only 21 . T. perplexa 

 8. Incrusting leaves, etc., on the ground and ascending as sessile flabelliform 

 pilei which are dentate at the upper end or deeply divided, honey- 

 yellow to tawny oUvaceous throughout. Known from Cuba only. . . . 



22. T. dentosa 

 8. Typically effused, rising obliquely upward from the support as a cluster of 



small trunks which branch and terminate in spiculous tips . 23. T. spiculosa 



I. Thelephora palmata Scop, ex Fries, Syst. Myc. i:432. 

 1821. Plate 4. fig. 4. 



Clavaria palmata Scop. Fl. Carn. 2 : 483. 17 QO.-Ramaria 

 palmata Holmsk. Fun. Dan. i: 106. pi. — .1799. -Merisma 

 foetidum Pers. Syn. Fung. 584. 1801.-M. palmata Pers. Myc. 

 Eur. i:113. 1^22. -Thelephora palmata americana Peck, Rep. 

 N. Y. State Mus. 53 : 857. 1900. 



Illustrations: Greville, Crypt. Fl. i: pi. ^^.-Holmskiold, 

 Fun. Dan. i : pi. of Ramaria palmata. -J^rombholz, Abbild. und 

 Beschr. pi. 54. f. 24, ^5.-Nees, System pL 16. f. 151 B.-Baillon, 

 Dictionn. de Botan. i : 737. /. 7.-Loudon, Encyc. of Plants 

 /. 16131.-WmiQV, Crypt. Flora i: 321. 



Fructification coriaceous-soft, fuscous purple, drying cinna- 

 bar-brown or chestnut-brown, erect, very much branched, with 

 very fetid odor; pileus with numerous somewhat fastigiate, 

 palmate divisions which are even, flattened, dilated above, and 

 with fimbriate and whitish tips; stem simple or soon branched; 

 hymenium amphigenous; spores pale umbrinous under the 

 microscope, sparingly echinulate,10 x 7-8 /x. 



Fructification of American specimens 2-6 cm. high, 1-3 cm. 

 broad; stem 1-1^ cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick. 



