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6. Hymenium drab, becoming sage-green when crushed in 7 per cent potas- 
sium hydrate solution; pileus pinkish buff to cinnamon-brown with a 
broad pale Dg. ..,.:............... n c 16. T. culicularis 
6. Hymenium ferruginous brown (Rood’s brown) to fuscous ............ жер. d 
7. Pileus, when squamulose, with the fibers matted and agglutinated into ap- 
pressed and wholly adnate squamules, margin dilated and whitish fimbriate 
becoming entire and сопсоіотойв........................... 17. T. intybacea 
7 IPileus not zonate, fibrous-squamulose and usually strigose, margin fibrous- 
ЕКЕН І................................. 222 2 18. T.terrestris 
7. Pileus zonate, in other respects resembling the preceding species.......... 
19. T. griseozonata 
8. Inerusting and ascending small plants, free branches somewhat terete but 
flattened towards the tips; spores umbrinous............... 20. T. fimbriata 
8. Resupinate on leaves and twigson the ground and sending up free, simple 
or branching trunks; spores fuscous. Known from Cuba only 21. T. perplexa 
8. Inerusting leaves, etc., on the ground and ascending as sessile flabelliform 
pilei which are dentate at the upper end or deeply divided, honey- 
yellow to tawny olivaceous throughout. Known from Cuba only.... 
22. T. dentosa 
8. Typically effused, rising obliquely upward from the support as a cluster of 
small trunks which branch and terminate in spiculous tips.23. T'. spiculosa 
I. Thelephora palmata Scop. ex Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 432. 
1821. Plate 4. fig. 4. 
Clavaria palmata Scop. Fl. Carn. 2: 483. 1760.- Ramaria 
palmata Holmsk. Fun. Dan. т: 106. pl.—.1799. —Merisma 
foetidum Pers. Syn. Fung. 584. 1801.-М. palmata Pers. Myc. 
Eur. 1:113. 1822.- Thelephora palmata americana Peck, Rep. 
N. Y. State Mus. 53: 857. 1900. 
Illustrations: Greville, Crypt. Fl. т: pl. 46.-Holmskiold, 
Fun. Dan. 1: pl. of Ramaria palmata.-Krombholz, Abbild. und 
Beschr. pl. 54. f. 24, 25.-Nees, System pl. 16. f. 151 B.-Baillon, 
Dietionn. de Botan. т: 737. f.?.-Loudon, Encyc. of Plants 
f. 16131.-Winter, Crypt. Flora т: 321. 
Fructification coriaceous-soft, fuscous purple, drying cinna- 
bar-brown or chestnut-brown, erect, very much branched, with 
very fetid odor; pileus with numerous somewhat fastigiate, 
palmate divisions which are even, flattened, dilated above, and 
with fimbriate and whitish tips; stem simple or soon branched; 
hymenium amphigenous; spores pale umbrinous under the 
microscope, sparingly echinulate,10 x 7-8 џи. 
Fructification of American specimens 2-6 cm. high, 1-3 cm. 
broad; stem 1-13 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick. 
