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Specimens examined: 

 Sweden: Stockholm, L. Romell, 125, I4I, I42, 143, 149, 150, 18 4. 

 Austria-Hungary: Sonntagberg, Strasser, comm. by Bresadola 



under the name T. incarnata. 

 France: Aveyron, A. Galzin, comm. by H. Bourdot, 15423; 



Allier, H. Bourdot, 1798, determined bj^ Quelet, and 3765 



under the name T. incarnata. 

 New Hampshire: Chocorua, W. G. Farlow. 

 Vermont: Little Notch, Bristol, E. A. Burt; Middlebury, E. A. 



Burt; Chapman's Mill, Middlebury, E. A, Burt. 

 Massachusetts: Magnolia, W. G. Farlow (in Farlow Herb.); 



Sharon, A. P. D. Piguet, comm. by W. G. Farlow, N (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55002); Sherborn, H. P. Morse, 



comm. by W. G. Farlow; Waltham, W. G. Farlow (in 



Farlow Herb.). 

 New York: East Gal way, E. A. Burt. 

 Washington: Bingen, W. N. Suksdorf, 906. 



p^3. T. fusco-violacea Bresadola, Fungi Tridentini 2: 98. pi. 

 210. f. 1. 1900; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 203. 1902; Bourdot 

 &|Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 25: 31. 1909; Juel, Arkiv for 

 Bot. 14I: 8. 1915. 



Illustrations: Bresadola, Fungi Tridentini 2: jpl. 210. J. 1. 

 Type: authentic specimen in Burt Herb. 

 Fructification effused, thin, ecru-drab, fading to pale smoke- 

 gray and pale olive-gray in the 

 herbarium; in structure 40-60 

 11 thick, composed of hyaline,in- 

 terwoven hyphae 4-5 m in diam- 

 eter; sterigmata 12-15X4^-6 n] 

 spores hyaline under the micro- 

 scope, even, 10-15X3-5 y.. 



Fructifications 3-5 cm. in di- 

 ameter. 



On bark of Abies and some- 

 times of frondose species. New 

 Hampshire to Pennsylvania. 

 August to December. Rare. 



Fig. 3. T. fusco-violacea. Basidium, c, 

 with fully developed sterigmata; spores, 

 8; hypha, h. X 870. From authentic 

 specimen from Bresadola. One spore 

 shows a curious projection. 



