[Vol. 3 

 228 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



New York: Iloldorberg Mountains, C. H. Peck (in Coll. N. Y. 



State, under the name Zygodesnmis hicolor C. & E.). 

 New Jersey: Belleplain, C. L. Shear, 1253; Newfield, J. B. 



Ellis, in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 420. 

 Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, Schtveinitz (in Herb. Schweinitz, 



as the Thelepliora umbrina of Schweinitz, Syn. N. Am. 



Fungi, No. 578). 

 Maryland : Takoma Park, C. L. Shear, 1061, 1085. 

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

 South Carolina: M. A. Curtis, 2485, 3700, types of Thele- 



phora granosa (in Kew Herb.). 

 Alabama: Peters, type of T. granosa (in Kew Herb.). 



18. H. coriaiius (Peck) Burt, n. comb. 

 Grandinia coriaria Peck, Buffalo Soc. Nat. Hist. Bui. 1 :61. 

 1873; N. Y. State Mus. Eept. 26:71. 1874. — Eijpochnus 

 fulvo-cinctus Bresadola, I. R. Accad. Agiati Atti III. 3:116. 

 1897; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14:227. 1900. 

 Type: in Coll. N. Y. State. 



Fructification etfused, tomentose, membranaceous, separa- 

 ble from the substratum, under side and margin ochraceous- 



tawny, upper side and minute crowded gran- 

 ules brownish olive; in structure 200-350/t 

 thick, composed of closely arranged, some- 

 what interwoven, colored, thin-walled, occa- 

 j,. jg sionally nodose-septate, hyphae 2Y2P- in diam- 



H. eoriarius. etcr, forming occasional rope-like strands 

 ^^'''■^5 ^^^^^ next to the substratum ; basidia with 4 ster- 



strandx640. -, -, i i ;i J.^ ^ 



IgTtiata; spores darker colored than the ny- 

 phae, subglobose-angular, aculeate, the body 5-6/^ in diame- 

 ter ; KHO solution usually becomes dark colored next to the 

 sections and changes the hymenial layer to sage-gTeen. 



Fructifications about 3-10 cm. long, iy2-4 cm. broad. 



On rotten wood, noted also on old leather and thallus of 

 Peltigera aphthosa. Vermont to South Carolina and west- 

 ward to Wisconsin. August to November. 



This species is related to H. hotryoides but may be dis- 

 tinguished from it by the more olivaceous color of the granu- 



