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354 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Underwood (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Ithaca, C. Thom, 
Cornell Univ. Herb., 13601; Osceola, C. H. Peck, type of 
Merulius subaurantiacus (in Coll. N. Y. State) ; Syracuse, 
Г. M. Underwood, in Ell. & Ev., Fungi Col., 214, and (in 
N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., 109). 
Michigan: Ann Arbor, C. Н. Kauffman, 17, 30 (the latter in 
Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 21208). 
Tennessee: Elkmont, C. H. Kauffman, 91 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 44991). 
Idaho: Kaniksu National Forest, Priest River, J. В. Weir, 
27, 71, 72, 8003 (the last in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
Washington: Olympia, C. J. Humphrey, 1317. 
California: В. А. Harper (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
Jamaiea: Sir John Peak, W. 4. Murrill, 813 (in N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb.). 
36. M. montanus Burt, n. sp. 
Type: in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Fructification resupinate, effused, membranaceous, sepa- 
rable in small pieces, contracting in drying so as to form wide 
fissures, drying between avellaneous and 
о wood-brown, the subiculum and margin fibril- 
= lose and buffy citrine; hymenium with folds 
minute, subreticulate, not outlining pores; in 
Fig. 34 structure 300—400 и thick, with the folds ex- 
ы _ tending 200-400 и more, composed of suberect, 
Hypha, spores loosely branched and interwoven hyphae 2-3 д 
See pl. 22, f. 92, Ш diameter, occasionally nodose-septate, pale 
olive-buff under the microscope, and of a very 
dense hymenial layer containing great numbers of spores in 
a zone 80 д broad; spores pale olive-buff under the microscope, 
even, 314-2 y, flattened on one side; no cystidia. 
Fruetification in pieces, the largest of which is 4X2 cm. 
and has a margin with curvature indieating a diameter of 
10 em. 
On rotten wood of Pinus monticola. Idaho. June. 
M. montanus somewhat resembles M. himantioides in con- 
figuration of hymenium, but is distinct from this species by 
