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BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA VI 215 
Specimens examined: 
Sweden: Smolandia, from E. Fries (in Kew Herb.); 
Femsjó, L. Romell, 234, 235, and E. A. Burt; Stockholm, 
L. Romell, 229—232. 
Finland: Mustiala, P. Karsten, authentie specimen of H. 
tristis; Messuby, P. Karsten, authentic specimen of Hy- 
pochnopsis fuscata. 
Hungary: A. Kmet, comm. by G. Bresadola, authentic speci- 
men of Hypochnus sitnensis. 
Ceylon: Habgalla, No. 539, Feb., 1868, the type of Thele- 
phora arachnoidea Berk. & Broome (in Kew Herb.). 
Canada: J. Macoun, 64. 
Ontario: Harraby, E. T. € S. A. Harper, 593, 
New Hampshire: Chocorua, W. G. Farlow, 9, 13, 14, 15, 23. 
Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt. 
Massachusetts: Sharon, A. P. D. Piguet, comm. by W. G. 
Farlow. 
New York: Lake Placid, C. H. Peck; Floodwood, E. A. Burt. 
Wisconsin: Blue Mounds, E. T. Ф S. A. Harper, 860. 
British Columbia: Kootenai Mountains, near Salmo, J. R. 
Weir, 441, 487 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 8227, and 20225 
respectively). 
6. H. fuscus Pers. ex Fries, Obs. Mye. 2:280. 1818 and 
1824; Karsten, Finska Vetenskaps-Soc. Bidrag Natur och 
Folk 37:163. 1882. 
Corticium fuscum Persoon, Obs. Мус. 1:38. 1796; Fries, 
Hym. Eur. 651. 1874. — Thelephora fusca Fries, Syst. Myc. 
1:451. 1821. — T'helephora vinosa Persoon, Syn. Fung. 2:578. 
1801. — T'omentella fusca (Pers.) Schroeter, Krypt.-Fl. Schle- 
sien 3:419. 1888. 
Type: existence of an authentie specimen unknown to me. 
Fructification effused, membranaceous, separa- 
ble, einnamon-drab, darkening to Benzo-brown and 
Natal-brown; structure in section 200-350, thick, 
with a few hyphae running along the substratum ÉD 
and ascending and branching or giving off suberect, ^ spores | 
loosely interwoven branches; hyphae concolorous ` X940. 
with the fructification but rather pale under the microscope, 
