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ent it appears distinct from the latter by its adnate, very 
thin fructification and short-celled, hyaline hyphae of irregu- 
lar form and mode of branching. 
Specimens examined: 
New Hampshire: Madison, W. G. Farlow, 15, type; Cho- 
corua, W. G. Farlow, 16. 
16. H. epigaeus Burt, n. sp. 
Type: in Farlow Herb. and in Burt Herb. 
Fructification effused, soft, felty-membranaceous, tomen- 
tose, light mineral-gray, the margin thinning out and inde- 
terminate; in structure 400и thick, with hy- 
phae hyaline, 4» in diameter, thick-walled, no- 
243 dose-septate, densely interwoven for 100,4 next 
the substratum and then suberect and ascend- 
Жы. 16 ing side by side to the hymenium; База with 
Bporos 640. 4 sterigmata; spores hyaline to deep olive-buff 
under the microscope, angular-globose, rough- 
walled or aculeate with very short points; spore body 6-74 
in diameter. 
Fructification about 2 em. in diameter. 
Running over ground among small mosses. Massachusetts. 
August. 
This species is marked by its color, two-layered fructifica- 
tion, thiek-walled and hyaline hyphae, and spores hardly 
more than rough-walled. H. cinerascens occurs on wood, 
is drab-gray, and has very thin-walled and delicate, loosely 
arranged hyphae 2-3» in diameter, and smaller spores than 
Н. epigaeus. H. chalybeus, as received from Bresadola, is 
pale at the surface only and has colored hyphae constituting 
the greater part of the fructification. 
Specimens examined: 
Massachusetts: Manchester, W. G. Farlow, 2, type. 
17. H. botryoides (Schw.) Burt, n. comb. 
Thelephora botryoides Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leip- 
zig Schrift. 1:109. 1822. — T. olivacea B T. botryoides Fries, 
Elenehus Fung. 1:198. 1828; Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soe. 
Trans. N. S. 4:168. 1834; Fries, Epier. 543. 1838. — T. 
