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sli^litly wrinkled hymenium. As in the otherwise very different 

 T. caryophylhci, hirj^e specimens sometimes resemble a double 

 flower from the great number of small pileoli and lobes present 

 in the center. Schweinitz described the species as sometimes 

 having; dimidiate pilei, but I have seen no such specimens. My 

 collection assumed a disagreeable odor in drying but no such 

 odor has been noted by others. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ell. tt Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 1110, and Fun. Col., 1593, 



in both under the name T. caespitulans. 

 Vermont: Lake Dunmore, E. A. Burt. 

 New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



5155), also in the exsiccati cited. 

 Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schw.); 

 Micheiier, 1604 (in Curtis Herb, and in Kew Herb.), the 

 cotype and type respectively of T. tephroleuca; Trexlertown, 

 W. Herbst, 43, C. G. Lloyd and W. Herbst, 2866, 3088 

 (both in Lloyd Herb.) ; A^. M. Glatfelter (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb., 425G1). 

 Dist. of Columbia: Washington, F. J. Braendle, comm. by C. H. 



Peck. 

 North Carolina: G. F. Atkinson (in Cornell Univ. Herb., 23253); 

 Asheville, H. C. Beardslee; Schweinitz cited North Caro- 

 lina as a station. 

 South Carolina: Caesar's Head, Ravenel, one of the types (in 



Curtis Herb, and Kew Herb.) of T. tephroleuca. 

 Ohio : C. G. Lloijd, 4000. 

 Illinois: Glen Ellen, E. T. and S. A. Harper, 669. 



14. T. albido-bruimea Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. N. S. 

 4:166. 1834. Plate 5. fig. 13. 



Siereuni Micheneri B. & C. Grevillea i: 162. 1873 (in part).- 

 Stereum spongiosum Massee, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 27: 172. 

 lSS9.-Thelephora odorifera Peck, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 44: 

 132 (22). 1891. 

 Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 



Pileus sessile or with very short stem, coriaceous, spongy when 

 dry, uniformly cinnamon-buff or with the older portions chest- 

 nut-brown, sometimes assuming mesopod form when encircling 

 small twigs or shrubs, sometimes effuso-reflexed, usually dimidi- 



