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some granular incrustation rather than of a uniformly com- 
pact, fleshy, non-inerusted hyphal structure from substratum 
to basidia as in С. cerebella. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiceati: Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 1588 (in the copies of 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Herb. and of Farlow Herb., but not in 
copy of Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, 3092 to Cooke, type (in 
Kew Herb.) ; same locality and collector, Ell. & Ev., N. Am. 
Fungi, 1588 (in copies of U. S. Dept. Agr. Herb. and of 
Farlow Herb.). 
3. С. агіда (Fr.) Karsten, Finska Vet.-Soc. Bidrag Natur 
och Folk 37: 161. 1882; басс. Syll. Fung. 6: 648. 1888; 
Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 25 : 132. 1889. 
Thelephora arida Fries, Elenchus Fung. 1:197. 1828.— 
Corticium aridum (subg. Coniophora) Fries, Hym. Eur. 659. 
1874; Cooke, Grevillea 8:89. 1880. — Coniophora Cooker 
Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 25 : 136. 1889; Басс. Syll. Fung. 
9 : 242. 1891. 
Illustrations: Fries, Icones Hym. pl. 199. f. 1. 
Type: in Herb. Fries, authentie specimen in Kew Herb. 
Fructification effused, membranaceous, adnate, drying from 
warm buff to tawny olive or rarely darker, the margin paler 
and sometimes whitish; hymenium even, 
thick, composed of loosely interwoven, thin- 
walled, often collapsing, usually hyaline 
hyphae 2-3 и in diameter, not inerusted; no 
pulverulent; structure in section 100-500 pu 
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eystidia; basidia with 4 sterigmata, protrud- 
ing; spores tawny olive in a spore collection, 
even, 10-12 6-7 y. 
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ari Fruetifieations 4-20 em. long, 1-8 em. 
Section of fructifi- broad, lo-V5 mm. thick. 
x 45; 
spores X 665. 
niferous species, 
Common on prostrate limbs and logs and 
on under side of boards and timbers of co- 
rarely on frondose species. Canada to 
Louisiana and westward to Idaho. 
