1919'] The Hydnums of North Carolina 195 



has not been found south of New Jersey. It should be looked for in 

 our mountains. The following is from Banker (Memoirs Torr. B. C. 

 12, No. 2:171. 1906): 



'Tlant terrestrial, mesopodous, gregarious, confluent, small, zonate ; 

 pileus plane to depressed, occasionally subinfundibuliform, nearly 

 round, 1-2 cm. wide, often confluent into crust-like layers, sometimes 

 several decimeters wide; surface radiately flbrous-striate, floccose- 

 tomentose or subscrobiculate at the center of the disk, subsulcate- 

 zonate, castaneous or darker near center to light cream-color or whitish 

 at margin; margin thin, substerile; substance fibrous tough, thin; 

 stem slender, terete, attenuate downward to a common floccose-tomen- 

 tose base imbedded in the substratum, subpubescent, cream-colored 

 above to glabrous dark reddish brown below, 1-1.5 cm. long, 2-7 mm. 

 wide ; teeth slender terete, acute, scarcely decurrent, whitish to cream- 

 colored, 2 mm. long and less ; spores subglobose, echinulate, white or 

 hyaline, 3.5-4^ wide. Hab. : On ground among moss. August-No- 

 vember." 



Middle district (Schw.) woods. Curtis. 



4. Phellodon Cokeri Banker, n. sp. 



Plate 29. 



The following description of this new species is by Dr. Howard J. 

 Banker : 



''Hymenophore terrestrial, mesopodous, gregarious, somewhat con- 

 fluent, irregular and often deformed, light cinnamon brown to tawny, 

 medium size to small; pileus obconic, depressed to subinfundibuli- 

 form, irregular, 1-6 cm. wide, 1-3 mm. thick ; surface uneven, more 

 or less scrobiculate, spongy to subpubescent, light cinnamon brown or 

 sordid tawny, irregularly maculate, azonate; margin thin, acute, 

 sterile ; substance somewhat spongy above, harder and more conijiact 

 within, very brittle when dry, concolorous with surface becoming 

 darker toward center, azonate; stem central to eccentric, attenuate 

 downward to an enlarged spongy base, more or less deformed, snrtaco 

 uneven, spongy to subpubescent, concolorous with cap, 1-3 cm. long, 

 3-10 mm. wide; teeth slender, terete, tapering, acute, subfleshy, i\\>- 



