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On sandy ground in pine woods. New Jersey to Louisiana. 

 August to November. 



Tills species is closely related to T. terrestris and has the same 

 habitat, habit of growth, and spore characters, but is distin- 

 guished from that species by its zonate pileus. The fructifica- 

 tions usually occur in flattened clusters with spreading pileoli; 

 sometimes the individual pileoU acquire an infundibuliform 

 appearance by the growing together for part of their length of 

 opposite edges of individual pileoli; sometimes a small obconic 

 pileus occurs composed of two or more pileoli with adjacent 

 edges confluent. In the collection cited below from Mississippi, 

 small lobes are present in the cavity of the cup, as in T. vialis 

 and T. caryophyllea. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ravenel, Fungi Am., 444, type distribution; Ravenel, 

 Fun. Car. II, 28, under the name T. caryophyllea; ElUs, N. 

 Am. Fungi, 714; Ell. & Ev., Fun. Col., 1305. 

 New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, in his exsiccati cited. 

 South Carolina: Aiken, H. W. Ravenel, Fungi Am., 444, type 



collection. 

 Alabama: Auburn, C. F. Baker, Lloyd Herb., 3462. 

 Mississippi: Biloxi, Mrs. E. S. Earle, 32. 

 Louisiana: St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, by. 



20. T. fimbriata Schw. ex Schweinitz, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 N. S. 4: 106. 1834. Plate 4. fig. 3. 



Merisma fimbriatum Schw. (Syn. Fung. Car., No. 1067) 

 Schrift. d. Naturforsch. Gesell., Leipzig, i: 110. lS22.-Thele- 

 phora scoparia Peck, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: 123 (27). pi. 

 2. J. 20, 21. 1889. 



Illustrations: Peck, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: pi. 2. /. 20, 

 21. 



Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 



Fructification coriaceous-soft, incrusting and ascending small 

 plants (mosses, etc.), here and there emitting fascicles of 

 branches united below, subterete, acuminate or fimbriately 

 incised, at first pale or whitish, soon ferruginous brown, dry- 

 ing Rood's brown; hymenium even, pruinose-pubescent; spores 

 umbrinous, tuberculate, 7-11 x 6-9 m. 



