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Pileus 1-1^ cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, 1 mm. thick. 

 On mossy bark at the base of trees and on fallen twigs in 

 groves. Vermont to Texas and west to Missouri. June to 

 August. 



In his description Berkeley noted that the odor of this species 

 is strong and unpleasant; my specimens retained such an odor 

 for several years but I did not notice it before they were dried. 

 T. cuticularis may be distinguished from our other species by 

 its drab hymenium, portions of which become sage-green when 

 crushed under a cover glass in a 7 per cent solution of potassium 

 hydrate, and by its spores, which are not at all angular or irreg- 

 ular as regards the main body of the spore, but ovoid and flat- 

 tened on one side or slightly kidney-shaped and sparingly studded 

 with slender spines. 



Specimens examined: 

 Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt. 



Rhode Island: Olney, 1851 (in Kew Herb, and in Curtis Herb.). 

 Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, Schweinitz (in Herb. Schw.), the Nos. 

 628 and 629 of Syn. N. Am. Fungi, under the names respec- 

 tively of T. fuscocinerea, and T. gausapata; Kitanning, D. 

 R. Sumstine, 1. 

 Delaware: Newark, H. S. Jackson. 

 North Carolina: Asheville, H. C. Beardslee, 03196. 

 Florida: Mrs. Sams, comm. by C. G. Lloyd. 

 Texas: W. H. Long, Jr., 351, 387 (in Cornell Univ. Herb.). 

 Ohio : Waynesville, T. G. Lea (in Kew Herb.), type ; Preston, A.P. 

 and L. V. Morgan, comm. by C. G. Lloyd, also C. G. Lloyd, 

 specimen dated July 26, 1896; Cincinnati, C. G. Lloyd, 1^492. 

 Wisconsin: Blue Mounds, E. T. and S. A. Harper, 861. 

 Missouri: Columbia, B. M. Duggar, 289. 



17. T. intybacea Pers. ex Fries, Syst. Myc. i : 43L 1821. 



Plate 5. fig. 11. 



T. intyhacea Pers. Syn. Fung. 567. 1801-1807; Myc. Eur. 

 i:110. 1822. 



Illustrations : BuUiard, Champ, de la France pi. 278.-BigesbTd 

 et Guillemin, Champ. Super. France 436. pi. 44- f- !• 



Fructifications cespitose, soft, whitish, then rufous-ferru- 

 ginous, drying chestnut-brown to Rood's brown, with stems 



