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California: Berkeley, H. A. Lee, two collections, comm. by 
W. A. Setchell, 1017, 1018 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44243, 
44244); San Francisco, W. A. Setchell, 1034 (in Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Herb., 44242). 
Mexico: Guernavaca, W. A. ё Edna Г. Murrill, 534, М. Y. 
Bot. Gard., Fungi of Mexico (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 
94511). 
2. С. fusispora (Cooke & Ell.) Cooke іп басс. Syll. Fung. 
6:650. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 25 : 133. 1889. 
Corticium fusisporum Cooke & Ell. Grevillea 8 : 11. 1879.— 
Corticium fusisporum (subg. Coniophora) Cooke, Grevillea 
8 : 89. 1880. 
Type: type and eotype in Kew Herb. and in N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb. respectively. 
Fructification effused, thin, soft, readily separable, drying 
from tawny olive to snuff-brown, the margin mucedinous, 
pallid; hymenium even, pulverulent; structure in section 
200—250 и thick with (1) a layer next to the 
substratum of loosely and longitudinally ar- 
ranged hyphae, hyaline, thin-walled, collaps- ЖА 
ing, 4-5 u in diameter, sometimes granule- HA 
incrusted, sometimes forming rope-like 2 
mycelial strands 20-25 и in diameter, and | 
with (2) a compact hymenial layer; no 
cystidia; spores giving the color to the fructi- 
fication, fusiform, tapering at both ends, Fig. 2 
curved at the base, 18-21X 5-6 д. C. fusispora. 
On pine wood in wood pile and on pine e кеге 
logs. Newfield, New Jersey. September. 
This species is so similar to C. cerebella in color and prob- 
ably in diameter of fructification that when Ellis collected it 
again, seven years after his type collection, he confused these 
later specimens with C. puteana and distributed some speci- 
mens under the latter name in some copies of his exsiccati. 
С. fusispora is distinct from С. cerebella by being thinner, 
dry rather than fleshy, having longer and more pointed spores, 
and by being two-layered and with the layer next to the sub- 
stratum composed of very loosely arranged hyphae having 
