[Vol. 7 

 104 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



No. 2038, type and an unnumbered specimen (both in Kew 

 Herb.). 



15. S. pallidum (Pers.) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stereums, 

 31. textf. 536, 550. 1913. Plate 3, fig. 13, 14. 



Craterella pallida Persoon, Ic. et Descr. Fung, i : 3. pi. 1. 

 f. S. 1798. — Thelephora pallida Persoon, Syn. Fung. 565. 

 1801; Myc. Eur. i: 111. 1822; Fries, Hym. Eur. 633. 

 1874; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 527. 1888. — Helvella pannosa 

 Sowerby, Col. Figs. Eng. Fungi, pi. 155. 1788, in part. — Thele- 

 phora pannosa Sowerby ex Fries, in part, and T. pannosa var. 

 pallida (Pers.) Fries, Syst. Myc. i : 430. 1821.— 7". Sowerheyi 

 Berkeley, Outlines Brit. Fungi, 266. 1860; Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. III. 15:320. 1865; Fries, Hym. Eur. 633. 1874; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6: 522. 1888. — Stereum Sowerheyi (Berk.) Massee, 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 164. 1890. — Bresadolina pallida 

 (Pers.) Brinkmann, Ann. Myc. 7:289. 1909. 



Illustrations: Persoon, Ic. et Descr. Fung. i:pl. 1. f. 3; 

 Sowerby, Col. Figs. Eng. Fungi, pi. 155; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 

 4. Stip. Stereums, textf. 536, 550. 



Fructifications cespitose, laterally confluent, 

 infundibuliform, coriaceous-spongy, rather thick, 

 becoming cartridge-buff to cream-color in the 

 herbarium, the upper side strigose-squamose; 

 stem short, villose at the base; hymenium with 

 slight, very obtuse, radial folds, under a lens 

 more or less setulose with hyaline hairs; cystidia 

 hair-like, not incrusted, cylindric, 6-8 n in di- 

 ameter, protruding 10-50 n beyond the basidia, 

 usually very numerous but sometimes only few 

 found; spores hyaline, even, flattened on one 

 side, 6-8X4-5 fx. 



Fructifications 1-3 cm. in diameter, 2-3 cm. high. 



On the ground in woods. Vermont to North 



Fig. 6. Carolina. July to November. Rare. 



S. pallidum. American specimens of S. pallidum agree 



Cystidium, basi- ^^n ^j^]^ ^]^g European specimen received from 



X^m5 ?rom' Bresadola, and, like the latter, are paler than 

 Bresadola. the otherwise excellent figures of Thelephora 



