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324 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
2. S. Schweinitzii Burt, n. sp. 
Thelephora pedicellata Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leip- 
zig Schrift. 1:108. pl. 2. f. 3. 1822; Fries, Elenchus Fung. 
1:200. 1828; Epicr. 544. 1838; Sace. Syll. Fung. 6:544. 1888. 
Not Septobasidium pedicellatum Pat. 
Illustrations: Schweinitz, loc. cit. 
Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 
Fructification resupinate, coriaceous, dry, not separable 
from the substratum, varying from drab and cinnamon-drab 
to wood-brown, the margin undulate, 
whitish; in structure 3-layered, with 
(1) a layer next to the substratum of 
densely interwoven, colored hyphae 
3—31⁄ in diameter, which form (2) a 
layer of erect hyphal pillars or pedi- 
* eels each about 200-3004 long, 40-754 
| in diameter, about 2 to a millimeter, 
and pass into and support at the outer 
end (3) the hymenial layer 120-200 
thick, composed of densely inter- 
x а woven, colored hyphae 3-314. in di- 
a, portion of hymeni. ameter, of erect, flexuous, filiform, 
DNA š sparingly branched, hyaline paraphy- 
spore-bearing organ and ses or hyphal branches about 110и in 
IM мы a X diameter, and, when in fertile stage, 
of hyaline, thin-walled, erect probasi- 
dia, pyriform to subglobose, 12 X 
(-Әшіп the type, borne on the colored hyphae; spores simple, 
hyaline, even, curved, 5 X 2154 (as seen attached in the 
type but perhaps immature), borne singly at the apex of 
the terminal cell of a short filament 20-95 X 41-би, about 
4 cells long, eurved to fish-hook-shaped in form, which de- 
velops from the probasidium. 
Fructifications 2 — several em. long, 1 — several em. broad, 
12-12 mm. thick. 
On living branches. North Carolina to Louisiana. Fre- 
quent in winter. 
