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BURT—THELEPHORACE® OF NORTH AMERICA. ІП 975 
Kew Herb. respectively) and specimen (іп Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 4937); Ithaca, G. F. Atkinson; East Galway, E. A. 
Burt; Keeseville, C. O. Smith, Ell. & Ev., Fung. Col., 1818; 
Alcove, C. L. Shear, Shear, N. Y. Fungi, 56 and 308; Albany, 
C. H. Peck, comm. by H. D. House (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 43821); Karner, C. H. Peck, comm. by H. D. House 
(in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 43820). 
South Carolina: Ravenel, 1683 (in Curtis Herb. and in Kew 
Herb.), and in Ravenel, Fung. Car. IV., 16; Aiken, Ravenel, 
Ravenel, Fung. Am., 129. 
Alabama: Beaumont, the cotype and type of C. furcata (in Curtis 
Herb., 4022, and in Kew Herb. respectively). 
Wisconsin: Madison, W. Trelease (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 
42594). 
20. C. conglobata Burt, n. sp. Plate 19. fig. 15. 
Type: in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. and in Farlow Herb. 
Fructifications cespitose, 10-30 together, sessile on a common 
short trunk which is erumpent through the bark; individual 
fructifications subglobose, fuscous and glabrous when moist, 
drying mouse-gray and with the margin inrolled; hymenium 
concave, black or nearly black; basidia simple, with four sterig- 
mata; spores colorless, even, cylindric, slightly curved, 8-10 
x 21-3y. 
Cluster 1-2 mm. in diameter, emerging about 2 mm. from the 
bark; cups 400—500 џ broad, nearly as high. 
Clusters scattered on small limbs of Alnus. New Hampshire 
and New York. July and September. 
The clusters of this curious fungus are distributed at the rate 
of about 5 or 6 clusters to the square centimeter on what I con- 
clude to have been the under side of a horizontal limb—perhaps 
a limb prostrate on the ground; for cups in clusters exactly on 
this presumably under side have the pore central while in the 
clusters which emerged more obliquely from the limb the cups 
are somewhat auriform with oblique pore and are arranged in 
imbricated manner. The outer surface of the cups is composed 
of irregularly branched and interwoven pale brownish hyphe 
about 2 шіп diameter. The substance of the fructifications 
and common trunk-like base is composed of colorless hyphe 
with walls gelatinously modified. 
