1914) 
BURT—THELEPHORACE/E OF NORTH AMERICA. Ш 371 
Specimens examined: 
South Carolina: Aiken, Ravenel, 1714, type (in Kew Herb.). 
16. C. Ravenelii Berk. Grevillea 2: 5. 1873. Plate 19. fig. 14. 
Type: type and cotype in Kew Herb. and in Curtis Herb. 
respectively. 
Fructifications single or gregarious, sessile, subglobose, some- 
what flattened, depressed at the pore, minutely hairy under a 
lens, vinaceous buff; hairs minutely rough, about 300 в long, 
4 y thick, tapering towards the free end, olive-yellow under the 
microscope; spores hyaline, or perhaps very slightly colored, 
even, broadly ellipsoidal, 10-12 x 6-8 и. 
Fructifications 0.6 mm. high, 0.8 mm. broad; pore 0.15 mm. 
in diameter. 
On bark of Carya. South Carolina. 
Тһе specimens of this species which I have seen have been on 
thick and cracked portions of bark apparently from large 
branches or the main trunk of the tree. Sometimes only one 
fructification occurs on а piece of bark a centimeter square; 
sometimes such a piece bears from 3 to 6 fructifications with 
some of them barely in contact with one another. The type 
specimen contains so few fructifications that I made a micro- 
scopie preparation at Kew Herbarium from the specimen dis- 
tributed by Ravenel in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 721, which seems 
to me to be certainly the same species as the type. Berkeley 
described the spores in his original description as “elliptic, 
.00025 (in.) long"; I found them about twice this length in my 
preparation referred to and also in a preparation recently made 
from the specimen in Ravenel, Fung. Am., 130, in the Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Herb. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiccati: Ravenel, Fung. Am., 130; Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 721. 
South Carolina: Aiken, Ravenel, 1755, the type and cotype (in 
Kew Herb. and in Curtis Herb. respectively); and also 
Aiken, Ravenel, Ravenel, Fung. Am., 130, and Ellis, N. Am. 
Fungi, 721. 
17. C. texensis Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 20: 9. 1891. 
Plate 19. fig. 10. 
Type: in Kew Herb. 
Fruetifieations scattered, sessile, pallid but at present time 
