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the former only and the technical description at the end includes 

 additional notes from my own collections. 



The type collection was at first apparently on three pieces of 

 wood, one of which was broken into three parts and mounted on a 

 herbarium sheet (plate 8, figure i), while the two remaining pieces 

 v;ere preserved in a paper packet. The largest piece of wood is 

 about 7 cm long and 3 cm wide and about two-thirds of its area is 

 occupied by the fungus. The color of the hymenial surface was at 

 first bright orange (fide Peck), but on drying has become nearly 

 hazel or cocoa brown, and another part (probably bruised when 

 fresh) has become seal brown or aniline black. These areas are 

 partly surrounded by a sterile, appressed-tomentose margin now 

 cinnamon buft" in color. The hymenium-producing region is less 

 than one-half of a millimeter thick. Of this thickness nearly all is 

 composed of tube length. From the consistenc_y of the fructifica- 

 tion one would not judge that the species is perennial. The fungus 

 grew obliquely, however, and in sections taken across the tubes 

 (hence perpendicular to the substratum) there are present many 

 tubes (cut in cross section) completely filled with mycelium, while 

 the ones toward the outside are free from mycelium' as though they 

 were the product of the current season's growth. Where best 

 developed the pores average 4 to 6 to a millimeter and are subro- 

 tund with rather thick walls. Over most of the surface, however, 

 they have an abnormal appearance " like little ruptured vesicles," as 

 Peck states. There is no sheen or silkiness to the hymenium. 



Sections of the hymenium where best developed show no spores 

 although the basidia are present (plate 8, figure 2). No cystidia 

 were found. The trama and the subiculum are quite compact and 

 composed of branched hyphae very frequently more or less 

 encrusted with small crystals (plate 7, figure 5). At present most 

 of these hyphae are colorless but the tips are frequently filled with a 

 brown substance which in the hymenium probably gives color to 

 the fructification. The hyphae are 2 to 4 /x in diameter. Cross 

 walls are visible but usually not conspicuous and often are obscured 

 by the crystals. No clamp connections are present. 



The type collection was taken from the well-decayed wood of a 

 coniferous tree but the wood fragments adhering to the specimens 

 are too much decayed to admit of its further identification. 



The type locality is South Ballston, N. Y. 



In the following description notes from recent Pennsylvania col- 

 lections are also included, consequently the description is the 



