176 Hymenomycet», Thelephoracese, Kneiffia. 



Ilab. ad terram. Yakutat Bay, Alaska (Treleasei. — Ubi spe- 

 cimina fertilia, forte species nova demonstrabitur. 

 4. Peniophora crassa Burt, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus n. 54, 1901, 633 

 p. 155 (Diagnosis 1. c. desideratur). 



KNEIFFIA Fr. Epicr. p. 529 (1838), Peniophora Cooke in Grev. VIII, 

 p. 20 (1879) — Syll. VI p. 510, IX p. 216, XI pag. 114, XIV 

 p. 11 et 210. Cfr. Peniophora, supra. — Genus Kneiffia Fr. ad 

 typum Kneiffuv setigerce constitutum, a genere Peniophora Cooke 

 non distinguendum. Nota aliqua exkibita erronea, prout basidia 

 monospora, nam in genuina quoque Kn. setigera basidia sunt te- 

 traspora. De cetero est Corticium cystidiis praditum. — Sensu 

 Auctorum hoc genus heterogeneum, nempe Ppniophorct' sp. et Odon- 

 tim sp. amplectens, contra sensum Auctoris (Fries) qui clare dicit: 

 «hymenium granulis verrucisque destitutum, sed tantum setis ri- 

 gidis strigoso-exasperatum (Bresadola, Fungi Polonici in Ann. 

 Mycol. 1903, p. 99). 



1. Kneiffia setigera Fr. Epicr. pag. 529. — Syll. VI p. 510 et IX 

 p. 218 — Bres. Hym. Hung. Kmetiani p. 40. 



Hab. quoque ad truncos Al ni , Betulae, Populi tremul.v 

 et Salicis Capre;e, in Polonia. — Forma consueta omnino Cor- 

 ticiorum; resupinata late effusa, ceraceo-membranacea, ambitu prui- 

 nato, primitus alba, dein alutaceo-crustulina; hymenium generatim 

 leve, rarius tuberculosum, demum rimosum ; cystidiis velutino- 

 exasperatum; spora3 hyalinae, cylindraceae, subcompress.e, 10-15« 

 4-4 1 /,,; basidia clavata, tetraspora, 30-35 »6-7; cystidia sparsa, ra- 

 rissime subfasciculata, cylindracea v. subfusoidea, tenuiter tunicata, 

 tuberculoso-furfuraceo-incrustata, interdum septata et ad septa s.rpe 

 nodosa, 120-180*8-12 vel ultra; hyphae contextus 4-6 ;j.. latae 

 (Bresadola, Fungi Polonici in Ann. Mycol. 1903, p. 99). 



2. Kneiffia tomentella Bres. Fungi Polonici, in Ann. Mycol. 1903, 684 

 pag. 103. — Late et interrupte effusa, mollis, tomentosula, laxe 

 gontexta, ambitu arachnoideo, ex albida alutacea vel demum sub- 

 ochracea; hymenio e sublacunoso levi; sporis hyaliuis vel sub- 

 stramineis, 1-guttulatis, obovatis, S x / 2 -4: l / 2 » 2'/.,-3; basidiis clavatis, 

 20-25 « 4-5 ; cystidiia subfusoideis, apice obtuso, tenuiter tuuicatis, 

 apice laxe granuloso-inrrustatis. mox glabris, interdum septato- 

 nodosis, 7i> 90 1-5, parte prominula 30-40 ;j.. ; hyphis contextus, 

 2-3 u. cr. 



//(///. ad folia coacervata et ligna mucida, in Polonia. 



