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228 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
New York: Helderberg Mountains, C. H. Peck (in Coll. N. Y. 
State, under the name Zygodesmus bicolor C. & E.). 
New Jersey: Belleplain, C. L. Shear, 1253; Newfield, J. D. 
Ellis, in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 420. 
Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, Schweinitz (in Herb. Schweinitz, 
as Ше Thelephora umbrina of Schweinitz, Syn. N. Am. 
Fungi, No. 578). 
Maryland: Takoma Park, C. L. Shear, 1061, 1085. 
North Carolina: Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schweinitz). 
South Carolina: M. A. Curtis, 2485, 8700, types of Thele- 
phora granosa (in Kew Herb.). 
Alabama: Peters, type of Т. granosa (in Kew Herb.). 
18. H. coriarius (Peck) Burt, n. comb. 
Grandinia coriaria Peck, Buffalo Soc. Nat. Hist. Bul. 1:61. 
1873; N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 26:71. 1874. — Hypochnus 
fulvo-cinctus Bresadola, I. R. Ассай. Agiati Atti HII. 3:116. 
1897; Saee. Syll. Fung. 14:227. 1900. 
Type: in Coll. N. Y. State. 
Fruetifieation effused, tomentose, membranaceous, separa- 
ble from the substratum, under side and margin ochraceous- 
tawny, upper side and minute erowded gran- 
CH ules brownish olive; in structure 200-3504 
CUP Да thick, composed of closely arranged, some- 
Cr what interwoven, colored, thin-walled, occa- 
Vig. 18 sionally nodose-septate, hyphae 21⁄ in diam- 
H. coriarius. eter, forming occasional rope-like strands 
Spore, hyphal next to the substratum; basidia with 4 ster- 
igmata; spores darker colored than the hy- 
phae, subglobose-angular, aculeate, the body 5-64 in diame- 
ter; KHO solution usually becomes dark colored next to the 
sections and changes the hymenial layer to sage-green. 
Fructifications about 3-10 em. long, 115-4 em. broad. 
On rotten wood, noted also on old leather and thallus of 
Peltigera aphthosa. Vermont to South Carolina and west- 
ward to Wisconsin. August to November. 
This species is related to H. botryoides but may be dis- 
tinguished from it by the more olivaceous color of the granu- 
