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Curtis speaks of it as common he probably included the very common 



Tremellodendroyi candidum. 



1059. On ground in woods near campus, fall of 1913. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 

 North Carolina. Atkinson. 

 North Carolina. Schweinitz. 

 Common, woods and roadsides. Curtis. 



4. Thelephora regularis Schw. 



Plate 25 



Small plants growing on damp mossy earth; at times spathulate 

 in form, flat or the margins rolled back so as to be half infundibuli- 

 form, again infundibuliform with the margin divided and multiple 

 (as in No. 4435), height about 2-3 cm., the base narrowed gradually 

 into a cylindrical stalk about 1-2 mm. thick. Flattened portion 

 about 5-15 mm. wide. Dorsal surface nearly smooth or roughish 

 tomentose with Hght channels, and sometimes tubercles, a buffy 

 flesh color; spore-bearing surface a dark fleshy gray or purplish fawn, 

 with a glaucous bloom. Flesh tough, elastic, about color of the 

 dorsal surface, with a bitterish harsh taste. In drying the plants 

 become grayish brown, losing their flesh tints. Young parts of both 

 hymenium and dorsal surface turn a dark wine brown when rubbed. 



Spores when fully mature, angular, about honey color under 

 the microscope, subspherical, smooth, 5-6[jl in diameter. The spores 

 are slow to take their color and to become rough, still appearing 

 white and smooth until nearly full grown. Basidia club-shaped, 

 four-spored, sterigmata about 4[j, long; no cystidia. 



According to descriptions the plants may assume a regular in- 

 fundibuliform shape like a perfect cup, and Burt thinks (1. c, p. 206) 

 that T. multipartita, which is reported by Schweinitz from this state, 

 is only a branched form of this species. 



1597. In damp mossy earth by branch southwest of graded school, July 10, 1915. 

 1622. Same spot as No. 1597, July 21, 1915. Photo. 

 4435. Damp, sandy soil by Battle's Branch, July 17, 1920. 



Salem. Schweinitz. 

 North Carolina. Atkinson. 



