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Locse, V. Greschik, comm. by G. Bresadola. 

 New Brunswick: Campobello, W. G. Farloiv. 

 New Hampsliire : Cliocoriia, W. G. FarloW'. 

 Massachusetts : Belmont Spring, C. Bidlard, comm. by W. G. 



Farlow; Sharon, A. P. D. Piguet, comm. by W. G. Farlow. 

 New York : Alcove, C. L. Shear, 1316, in part ; East Galway, 



E. A. Burt, two collections. 

 Georgia: Tallulah Falls, A. B. Seymour, comm. by W. G. 



Farlow (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 43911). 

 Wisconsin: Blue Mounds, E. T. S S. A. Harper, 876. 



2. H. rubiginosus Bresadola, (Hym. Hung. Kmet.), I. R. 

 Accad. Agiati Atti HI. 3 :114. 1897. 



Zygodesmus riihiginosus Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Eept. 

 30:58. 1879. — Tomentella rubiginosa (Bres.) R. Maire, Ann. 

 Myc. 4:335. 1906. 



Type : in Bresadola Herb. ; probably a portion in Burt 

 Herb. 



Fructifications effused, membranaceous, somewhat separa- 

 ble from the substratum, dry, tomentose, drying Brussels- 

 brown; hymenium even or granular; structure 

 in section about 200-300/^ thick, with all the hy- 

 phae bright-colored and giving their color to 

 the fructification, about 3/^ in diameter, nodose- 

 septate, thin-walled, lax, loosely interwoven 

 towards the hymenium, longitudinally arranged jj rubiginosus. 

 next to the substratum, and occasionally con- Hyphai strand, 

 solidated there in rope-like, branching strands 

 up to 15/A in diameter; no cystidia; spores concolorous with 

 the fructification or more intensely colored, subglobose-angu- 

 lar, aculeate, body about 6-7 fi in diameter, or 7-8x6/*. 



Fructifications about 1^/^-3 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad. 



On decaying leaves and decaying wood. Canada, New York, 

 Louisiana, and British Columbia. October. Rare. 



specimens and may identify duplicates in another herbarium. The location of 

 all specimens in herbaria other than my own is designated by giving in paren- 

 thesis the name of the herbarium preceded by * ' in. " For example, the specimen 

 cited "Georgia: Tallulah Falls, A. B. Seymour, comm. by W. G. Farlow (in Mo. 

 Bot. Gard. Herb., 43911)," is in Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, but not 

 in Burt Herbarium. 



