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Specimens examined : 

 Exsiccati : Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 422, under the name Zygo- 



des77ius olivascens. 

 New Brunswick: Campobello, W. G. Farloiu, 5. 

 New Hampshire : Chocorua, W. G. Farloiv, 5, 6, 18. 

 Vermont: Weybridge, E. A. Burt. 

 Massachusetts: Magnolia, W. G. Farlow; Hyde Park, C. 



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



(in Farlow Herb.) ; Stony Brook, G. R. Lyman, 167; Wil- 



liamstown, W. G. Farloiv, 7. 

 New York: North Greenbush, H. D. House, two collections 



(in N. Y. State Mus. Herb, and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



14852, 20191) ; Karner, H. D. House (in N. Y. State Mus. 



Herb, and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44719); Ithaca, C. 



Thorn, Cornell Univ. Herb., 13582. 

 New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 



422. 

 Pennsylvania: Kittanning, D. R. Sumstine. 

 Maryland: Takoma Park, C. L. Shear, 1064, 1082, 1092. 

 South Carolina: Society Hill, M. A. Curtis, 



CO type (in Curtis Herb., 3204). 



11. H. pilosus Burt, n. sp. 



Type: in Burt Herb. 



Fructification effused, byssoid, membrana- 

 ceous, separable from substratum, dry, tomen- 

 tose, drying Sayal-brown, the margin slightly 

 paler, thin, narrow; hymenium even in places, 

 somewhat granular and pitted elsewhere ; struc- 

 ture in section 200-300/x thick, composed of hy- r) 

 phae about 4— 41/21^^ in diameter, branching at {^ 

 right angles, of the same color as the fructifica- 

 tion, nodose-septate, rather rigid, very loosely 

 interwoven, somewhat longitudinally interwov- 

 en next to the substratum; cystidia septate. Fig. 11 

 sometimes granular incrusted, with the emer- H- piiosus 

 gent portion colorless, thin-walled, cylindric, iimx640. 

 5y2-6;tt in diameter, emerging 40-90/t, tips ob- 

 tuse or clavate ; spores 4 to a basidium, slightly darker than 



