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232 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
On bark of rotting frondose wood and on ground, New 
Hampshire to New Jersey. November. Rare. 
The adnate habit, vinaceous-brown color of the fructifica- 
tions, and the colored hyphae which are not nodose-septate, 
are the distinctive characters of H. subvinosus. 
Specimens examined: 
New Hampshire: Chocorua, W. G. Farlow, 3; Intervale, R. 
Thaxter, 11 (in Farlow Herb. and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 
43930). 
Massachusetts: Sharon, A. P. D. Piguet, comm. by W. G. 
Farlow (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 43914). 
New Jersey : Belleplain, C. L. Shear, 1251, type. 
22. H. cervinus Burt, n. sp. 
Type: in Burt Herb. 
Fructifications in very small, interrupted, cir- 
cular patches, becoming sometimes confluent and 
effused, byssoid, thin, not separable, fawn-color, 
Je with the under side and margin whitish; in struc- 
ture 75-100» thick, consisting of loosely inter- 
woven, rather suberect, thin-walled hyphae 215— 
N g. 22 За in diameter, nodose-septate, hyaline under the 
H. cervinus. microscope; basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores 
T spore slightly colored, subglobose, short aculeate, the 
body 5-би in diameter, or 6 X би. 
Fructifications 2-5 mm. in diameter, more or less con- 
fluent over an area 2 cm. long, 1 em. broad. 
On bark of dead Acer macrophyllum lying on the ground. 
Washington. November 1. 
In the only collection which has been made, H. cervinus 
is characterized by its occurrence in very small, thin fructi- 
fications, not separable from substratum, fawn-color at the 
center with a whitish margin, and by having hyaline, nodose- 
septate hyphae. H. cinerascens is of different color, thicker, 
and separable from the substratum. 
Specimens examined : 
Washington: W. Klickitat County, W. N. Suksdorf, 847, type. 
23. H. fuligineus Burt, n. sp. 
Type: in Burt Herb. and in Farlow Herb. 
