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BURT THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. VIII 



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The northern specimens cited below have the approximate 

 spore characters of C. sistotremoides but an even hymenium, 

 hence they are all referred with doubt to this species for the 

 present. Possibly the granular condition of this species may 

 be confined to the vicinity of North Carolina. 



Specimens examined: 

 Vermont: Grand View Mt., E. A. Burt. 

 Massachusetts: Magnolia, W. G. Farlow; Manchester, W. G. 



Farlow, 3. 

 New York : Alcove, C. L. Shear, 1130. 

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



8. C. vaga Burt, n. sp. 

 Type : in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 

 Fructification effused, spongy, hypochnoid, 



tomentose, drying between pinkish buff and 

 cinnamon-buff, the margin thinning out and 

 concolorous; in structure 300 n thick, com- 

 posed of loosely interwoven, short-celled, 

 suberect hyphae 6-7 /* in diameter, not in- 

 crusted, not nodose-septate, slightly colored 

 and giving their color to the fructification; 

 no cystidia; spores slightly colored, con- 

 colorous with the hyphae, even, apiculate, 

 71/2-9x41/2-6 /z. 



Fructifications 8 cm. or more long, 3 cm. broad. 



On bark of old log of Ulmus americana. Hudson Falls, New 

 York. September. 



In its general appearance C. vaga somewhat resembles Co?'- 

 ticium vagum but the former is more compact and darker 

 colored, and its spores are colored, shorter, broader, and 

 almost mucronate-pointed. 



Specimens examined: 

 New York: Hudson Falls, S. H. Burnham, 20, type (in Mo. 

 Bot. Gard. Herb., 54498). 



9. C. avellanea Burt, n. sp. 

 Type : in Burt Herb. 



Fig. 8 



C. vaga. 



Basidium with 



sterigniata, spores, 



hypha. X 665. 



