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Specimens examined: 
Exsiceati: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 422, under the name Zygo- 
desmus olivascens. 
New Brunswick: Campobello, W. G. Farlow, 5. 
New Hampshire: Chocorua, W. G. Farlow, 5, 6, 18. 
Vermont: Weybridge, E. A. Burt. 
Massachusetts: Magnolia, W. G. Farlow; Hyde Park, C. 
Bullard, comm. by W. G. Farlow; Sharon, A. P. D. Piguet 
(in Farlow Herb.) ; Stony Brook, G. В. Lyman, 167; Wil- 
liamstown, W. G. Farlow, 7. 
New York: North Greenbush, H. D. House, two collections 
(in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 
14852, 20191); Karner, H. D. House (in N. Y. State Mus. 
Herb. and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44719); Ithaca, C. 
Thom, Cornell Univ. Herb., 13582. 
New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 
422. 
Pennsylvania: Kittanning, D. R. Sumstine. 
Maryland: Takoma Park, C. L. Shear, 1064, 1082, 1092. 
South Carolina: Society Hill, M. A. Curtis, 
eotype (in Curtis Herb., 5204). 
11. H. pilosus Burt, n. sp. 
Type: in Burt Herb. 
Fructification effused, byssoid, membrana- 
ceous, separable from substratum, dry, tomen- 
tose, drying Sayal-brown, the margin slightly 4 
paler, thin, narrow; hymenium even in places, 
somewhat granular and pitted elsewhere; struc- 
ture in section 200-800, thick, composed of hy- 
phae about 4-414» in diameter, branching at e 
right angles, of the same color as the fructifica- 
tion, nodose-septate, rather rigid, very loosely 
interwoven, somewhat longitudinally interwov- 
en next to the substratum; cystidia septate, Fig. 11 
sometimes granular incrusted, with the emer- 
gent portion colorless, thin-walled, cylindric, 
514-64 in diameter, emerging 40-90и, tips ob- 
tuse or clavate; spores 4 to a basidium, slightly darker than 
H. pilosus. 
Spore, cystidi- 
umx 640. 
