1916] 
BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA VI 235 
60 X 19и, emerging up to 25»; База with 4 sterigmata; 
spores globose, becoming pinkish buff and tubereulate, the 
body 6» in diameter. 
Fructification more than 7 cm. long, more than 4 em. 
broad. 
On bark of rotten frondose wood in woods. Louisiana 
and Jamaiea. September to November. 
This species is included in Hypochnus on account of its 
mature spores, whose tubereules are short and small The 
immature spores are hyaline and even; hence immature 
specimens of this species are likely to be referred to Penio- 
phora. The presence in the hymenium of dichotomously 
branched, antler-shaped, hyphal branches such as are present 
in Corticium, investiens and Grandinia granulosa is a unique 
character which I have not observed in any species of 
Peniophora and which should make possible identifieation of 
immature specimens, In habit, H. peniophoroides resembles 
Corticium portentosum and Thelephora pallescens Schw. 
Specimens examined: 
Louisiana: St. Martinville, 4. В. Langlois, v. 
Jamaiea: Mooretown, F. S. Earle, type, N. Y. Bot. Gard., 
Plants of Jamaiea, 540. 
26. H. thelephoroides (Ell. & Ev.) Burt, n. comb. 
Corticium thelephoroides Ellis & Everhart, Jour. Mee 
1:88. 1885; Sace. Syll. Fung. 6:630. 1888. 
Type: in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and portions in Kew 
Herb. Farlow Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Fruetifieation effused, adnate, thick, com- 
pact, at first pale olive-buff, becoming warm 
buff in the herbarium, the under side and E 
very narrow margin Saceardo's umber; in 
structure 150-1200,» thick, with (1) a densely ) O 
interwoven layer about 60,4 thick next to sub- 
stratum and (2) with a hymenial layer com- н, Miisnhoroldes. 
posed of hyphae, antler-shaped hyphal  Antlershaped or- 
branches, and numerous imbedded, concolor- = 
ous spores; hyphae thick-walled, not nodose-septate, 114-2 
