Hymenomycetss, Tlielephoracese, Tlielepliora. 503 



iitpliirimnm applanatis, inaequalibiis leviter tomentoso-scrnpnlosis, 

 fnscis, expallentibns, 1-4 cm. latis, margine similari, snbintegro ; 

 liymenio infero, vnlgo rngnlis papillisqne minntis intricatis obsesso, 

 piceo. 



Hah. in trnnco vetnsto, Brjansk Eossiae. — Variat resnpinata 

 niargine tenui carneo-rnfo, hymenio binc incle fnsco-pruinoso. The- 

 lephorae terrestri afQnis. 



3. Thelephora oubanguiensis Har, et Pat., Bnll. Mns. Hist. Nat. Paris 1862 

 1911, p. 365. — Epixyla, 2-3 cm. alta ; truuco cylindraceo, duro, 

 villoso, albido, 2-3 mm. diam., mox irregulariter 2-3-dichotome di- 

 viso, in ramos rigidos, villosos, albidos, 1-1,5 mm. crassos, rngu- 

 losos, bifidos, apice peUucide-rufescentique acntos, axillis compres- 

 siuscnlis divaricato ; hyphis contextus albidis, cylindricis, hixis, 



3-4 p, circ. crassis ; sporis cylindraceis, utrinqne obtusis, hyalinis, 

 numerosissimis, 6-7 * 2 ; cystidiis deficientibus. 

 Hah. Alto Oubangni, Congo belgico, Africa. 



4. Thelephora perplexa Bnrt, Theleph. North Amer. I, Anu. Missouri i863 

 Bot. Gard. I p. 223 (1914) tab. 15 fig. 4. — Incrustaus, coriacea, 

 basi membranaceo-expansa, resupinata, 3 cm. diam. et trunco ceu- 

 trali simplici vel digitato-ramoso, 2-3 cm. alto, 1,5-2 mm. crasso 

 effbrmata; parte resnpinata spougiosa, firma, separabili , centro 

 fusca, margine tenui determinato sordide rosea; parte adsceudente 

 quoqne spongioso-firma, fnsca, nunc simplici et apicem versus at- . 

 teuuata, nunc ramosa, ramis sursum pallidioribus, snbnhitis vel 

 parum applanatis; sporis fuscis, subglobosis, echinuhitis, 8-10 « 8-9. 



Hah. ad folia et ramulos humistrata, in ins. Cuba, Amer. bor. 



5. Thelephora magnispora Burt, Theleph. North Amer. I, Anu. Mis- i864 

 souri Bot. Gard. I p. 211 (1914) tab. 4 fig. 5. — Solitaria vel gre- 

 garia, coriacea, stipitata, 2-4 cm. alta ; pileo irregulariter infun- 

 dibuliformi, subtubnloso, lobis adscendentibus recurvatis praedito, 

 siccando avelbineo, in senectute ceutro fusco, fibroso-lacero, radia- 



tim striato, margine inciso, 1-2 cm. diam.; stipite centrali vel plus 

 minusve excentrico, aeqnali, solido, 7-12 mm. longo, 2-5 mm. crasso, 

 sicco tenaci, irregulariter augnlato, snlcato, Inride vinoso-brnnneo; 

 hyinenio infero, levi, vinoso-brnnneo ; basidiis simplicibus ; sporis 

 pallide ciunamomeis, snbglobosis, echinulatis 10-14 [x diam. 



Hah. ad terram muscosam, Chester Vale, Jamaica, Amer. bor. 

 0. Thelephora scissilis Bnrt, Theleph. North Amer. I, Ann. Missouri 1865 

 Bot. Gard. I p. 204 (1914) tab. 4 fig. 8. — Gregaria, coriacea, erecta, 

 1,5-2 cm. alta, clavariformis, ramosa, e basi longitudinaliter cri- 



