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hyphae pinkish buff under the microscope, thin- 
walled, collapsing, not nodose-septate, very 
loosely interwoven, 314-5» in diameter; База 
clavate, 28 X би, with 4 short sterigmata; 
spores with a slight tinge of buff in collection - 
. 3 S g. 27 
on slide but hyaline under the microscope, +. zygodesmoides. 
ovoid, uneven to echinulate, the body 5-6 х Spore, hyphax640. 
4-414 n. 
Fructifications 2-3 em. long, 1-2 em. broad. 
Under side of decaying pine logs. Quebec to New Jersey. 
August to January. Rare. 
In this species a loose subiculum is present next to the 
wood and bears on its surface a delicate hymenium, sug- 
gesting in habit Corticium arachnoideum but colored. Hy- 
pochnus zygodesmoides is not as bright yellow as H. echinos- 
porus and has paler spores than the latter and not globose. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiccati: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 715, under the name Thele- 
phora zygodesmoides. 
Quebee: Ironsides, J. Macoun, 266. 
Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt. 
New Jersey: Newfield, 7. В. Ellis, type, in Ellis, N. Am. 
Fungi, 715. 
28. H. echinosporus (Ellis) Burt, n. comb. 
Corticium echinosporum Ellis, Torr. Bot. Club Bul. 8:64. 
1881; басс. Syll. Fung. 6:633. 1888; Wakefield, 
Brit. Mye. Soc. Trans. 5:129. 1915. 
D Type: in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Fructification effused, membranaceous, separa- 
ble, Naples-yellow to deep colonial buff, the mar- 
gin concolorous, scanty, indeterminate; in struc- 
ture 2004 thick, consisting of а thin, soft, hyme- 
Fig. 28. nial membrane upon the loosely interwoven 
а threads of the subiculum; hyphae concolorous 
pha, spore (sometimes hyaline under the microscope), thin- 
Em walled, not nodose-septate, 3-4» in diameter, lax, 
very loosely interwoven, suberect, branching towards the 
