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uated into a slender stem; stem colored like the pileus, glabrous, 
cylindrie, woody ; hymenium inferior, even, brown; basidia clav- 
ate, 25 x 10и, four-spored; spores globose-angular, colorless or 
somewhat fuliginous, би in diameter; no cystidia. 
Fructification 1 em. high, divisions 5 mm. broad. 
Solitary or in clusters оп dead wood. Guadaloupe. Forest 
of Bains-Jaune, Duss, 289. 
Var. terrestris Pat. Ibid, has the divisions of the pileus nar- 
rower, laciniate, divergent, rigid. 
On the ground, Matouba, Guadaloupe, Duss. 
I have seen no specimens of either this species or its variety, 
neither of which have been reported since their original dis- 
covery. 
9. T. caryophyllea Schaeffer ex Fries, Syst. Myc. т: 430. 
1821. Plate 4. fig. 9. 
Elvella caryophyllea Schaeffer, Icon. Fung. 3: 115. pl. 826. 
1762-1774.-Craterella ambigua Pers. Obs. Myc. т: 36. pl. 6. 
f. 8-10. 1796.-Thelephora caryophyllea Y ambigua Pers. Myc. 
Eur. 1:112. 1822. 
Illustrations: Schaeffer, Icon. Fung. pl. 325.—Persoon, Obs. 
Myc. т: pl. 6. f. 8-10.-Schnizlein, in Sturm, Deutsch. Flora 3: 
fasc. 81. pl. 6.-Lanzi, Fungi di Roma pl. 11. f. 4.-Saunders 
and Smith, Мус. Ill. pl. 41. f. 7-12.-Smith, W. G. Brit. Basid. 
399. f. 96 a, b. 
Fructifications solitary or cespitose, coriaceous, fuscous purple 
but drying wood-brown; pileus infundibuliform, simple, or 
doubled by proliferous growth of smaller pilei from the disk of 
the principal pileus or of wedge-shaped lobes rising from its 
upper surface, upper surface radiately ridged or striate with 
masses of agglutinated fibers which are often dark colored, ob- 
scurely zonate when moist, margin incised; stem usually central, 
cylindric, villose, simple or branched; hymenium inferior, even, 
grayish olive to light yellowish olive; spores pale umbrinous, 
tuberculate, 7-8 x би. 
Fructification 13-5 em. high, 13-5 cm. broad; stem 1 cm. long, 
2-3 mm. thick. 
On the ground under pines. Canada to South Carolina and 
west to Ohio, also in the Pacific states. August to November. 
Abundant locally. 
