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confined to the main stems from the base upward to about the 

 region of branching; from here the branches spread so that 

 they grow together only rarely; furthermore, the branches 

 are distinctly cylindric or subcylindric. The spores average 

 a little shorter than those of related species. 



Specimens examined : 

 Vermont: Lake Dunmore, E. A. Burt; Newfane, C. D. Howe. 

 Massachusetts : Woods Hole, G. T. Moore. 

 New York: Alcove, C. L. Shear, 1218; Fishers Island, C. C. 



Eanmer, 192, 193, 194 (all in Hanmer Herb.). 

 North Carolina: Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schweinitz) ; 



Blowing Eock, G. F. Atkinson, Cornell Univ. Herb., 10662, 



10668 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44775, 44776) and (in 



Cornell Univ. Herb., 10663). 

 Ohio : Granville, H. L. Jones. 

 Missouri: near St. Louis, N. M. Glatfelter (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 701336). 



3. T. Cladonia (Schw.) Burt, n. comb. Plate 26, figs. 1, 2. 



Merisma Cladonia Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leipzig 

 Schrift. 1 : 110. 1822. — Thelephora Cladonia Fries, Elenchus 

 Fung. 168. 1828; Epicr. 537. 1836-1838; Schweinitz, Am. Phil. 

 Soc. Trans. N. S. 4:166. 1834; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 6:535. 

 1888.— Thelephora gracilis Peck, Torr. Bot. Club Bui. 25 : 371. 

 1898. 



Type : in Herb. Schweinitz. 



Fructifications solitary or gregarious, erect, coriaceous-soft, 

 pallid, drying warm buff, sometimes with the older portions 

 pale olive-gray, stipitate; stem cylindric, palmately branched 

 into a few — often three — cylindric branches, each or some of 

 which occasionally branch again in similar manner; branches 

 arranged in a plane from flattened end of stem or branch or 

 in a circle about the cylindric end of the stem which is then 

 sometimes perforate and the branches often channelled; 

 hymenium amphigenous, or inferior when the branch is chan- 

 nelled ; basidia longitudinally septate, pyrif orm, 15 X 9 a* ; 

 spores colorless, simple, even, curved, 9-15 X 4|-6 /i. 



