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When dropped in water after drying the entire plant, including 

 the hymenium, becomes water-soaked immediatel5\ 

 1328. On soil and sticks, just above path by Battle's Branch, east of Dr. Battle's, 



October 9, 1914. Spores rusty, tuberculate-spiny, subspberical, about 



7.6m in diameter. 

 4409. Around bases of young living trees and shrubs, July 14, 1920. Photo. 

 4467. Base of tree near Meeting of the Waters, July 27, 1920. Spores dark smoky 



purple, spiny, 6-7.5 X 7.5-10m- 

 4470. Around a rotten twig on damp soil, July 30, 1920. 



10. Thelephora lutosa Schw. 



This is known only from the type collection which is from Salem, 

 N. C. Bm-t describes the plant as follows (Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1 : 

 216): 



"Pilei cespitose, densely imbricated, at first somewhat fleshy 

 but at length hard, undulate-plicate, yellowish, almost subtomen- 

 tose with pulverulence, somewhat horizontally attenuated behind, 

 margin sublobate, at length inflexed; pileus less than 2 mm. thick, 

 with hyphae 3[jl in diameter; hymenium becoming yellowish, even; 

 spores olive-buff under the microscope, angular, 5-6 X 33/2~4[jl. 



''Cluster about 13^2 cm. high and broad. 



"On the ground in roads and in woods. North Carolina. 



"The type is distinct from T. albido-bnmnea, having thinner 

 pileus, finer hyphae, and smaller and paler spores. The pilei were 

 crowded together into a small buff-colored cluster about 13^ cm, 

 high and broad, somewhat as in Tremellodendron pallidum (Schw.); 

 I failed to find stems at their bases." 



11. Thelephora fimbriata Schw. 



The only record from this state seems the original one by Schwein- 

 itz (as Merisma). We have examined two collections of this from 

 Andros, Bahamas (determined by Burt), and find that there are dense 

 clusters of branches, simple to sparingly branched which reach a 

 length of 1.3 cm. They are a buffy ochraceous when dry and are 

 densely felted with intricately branched hairs. As we have not 

 found the plant in the fresh state we take the following from Burt 

 (Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1: 222. 1914): 



"Fructification coriaceous-soft, incrusting and ascending small 

 plants (mosses, etc.) here and there emitting fascicles of branches 

 united below, subterete, acuminate or fimbriately incised, at first 



