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uated into a slender stem; stem colored like the pileus, glabrous, 

 cylindric, woody; hymenium inferior, even, brown; basidia clav- 

 ate, 25 x IOij., four-spored; spores globose-angular, colorless or 

 somewhat fuliginous, 6/z in diameter; no cystidia. 



Fructification 1 cm. high, divisions 5 mm. broad. 



Solitary or in clusters on dead wood. Guadaloupe. Forest 

 of Bains-Jaune, Duss, 589. 



Var. terrestris Pat. Ibid, has the divisions of the pileus nar- 

 rower, laciniate, divergent, rigid. 



On the ground, Matouba, Guadaloupe, Duss. 



I have seen no specimens of either this species or its variety, 

 neither of which have been reported since their original dis- 

 covery. 



g. T. caryophyllea Schaeffer ex Fries, Syst. Myc. i : 430. 

 1821. Plate 4. fig. 9. 



Elvella caryophyllea Schaeffer, Icon. Fung. 3: ll5.pl. 325. 

 17Q2-1774.-Craterella ambigua Pers. Obs. Myc. i: 36. pi. 6. 

 f. 8-10. 17 9Q.-Thelephor a caryophyllea 7 ambigua Pers. Myc. 

 Eur. i: 112. 1822. 



Illustrations: Schaeffer, Icon. Fung. pi. S25.-Persoon, Obs. 

 Myc. i: pi. 6.f. 8-1 0.-Schnizlem, in Sturm, Deutsch. Flora 3: 

 fasc. 31. pi. ^.-Lanzi, Fungi di Roma pi. 11. f. ^.-Saunders 

 and Smith, ]%c. 111. pi. 41.f. 7-12.-Simth, W. G. Brit. Basid. 

 399. /. 96 a, b. 



Fructifications solitary or cespitose, coriaceous, fuscous purple 

 but drying wood-brown; pileus infundibuliform, simple, or 

 doubled by proliferous growth of smaller pilei from the disk of 

 the principal pileus or of wedge-shaped lobes rising from its 

 upper surface, upper surface radiately ridged or striate with 

 masses of agglutinated fibers which are often dark colored, ob- 

 scurely zonate when moist, margin incised; stem usually central, 

 cylindric, villose, simple or branched ; hymenium inferior, even, 

 grayish olive to light yellowish olive; spores pale umbrinous, 

 tuberculate, 7-8 x G/x. 



Fructification 1^-5 cm. high, l|-5 cm. broad; stem 1 cm. long, 

 2-3 mm. thick. 



On the ground under pines. Canada to South Carolina and 

 west to Ohio, also in the Pacific states. August to November. 

 Abundant locally. 



