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356 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
rulius lacrymans; Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduennae, 320, under 
the name Merulius lacrimans. 
Austria-Hungary: Hungary, Kmet, comm. by G. Bresadola. 
France: Ardennes, M. A. Libert, in Libert, Pl. Crypt. Ardu- 
ennae, 320. 
Maine: Portland, Morse, comm. by Sprague, 250 (in Curtis 
Herb., under the name Merulius lacrymans). 
Pennsylvania: West Chester, B. M. Everhart, in Ellis, N. 
Am. Fungi, 1307. 
38. M. pinastri (Fries) Burt, n. comb. 
Hydnum pinastri Fries, Obs. Мус. 1: 149. 1815; Syst. Mye. 
1: 417. 1821; Elenchus Fung. 1: 138. 1828; Hym. Eur. 614. 
1874; Saec. Syll Fung. 6: 464. 1888.—H ydmwm sordidum 
Weinmann, Fl. Ross. 370. 1836; Fries, Hym. Eur. 614. 1874; 
Басс. Syll. Fung. 6: 464. 1888.—Merulius irpicinus Peck, N. 
Y. State Mus. Rept. 47: 146. 1894; Saec. Syll. Fung. 11: 105. 
1895.—M. himantioides of Bresadola, Ann. Мус. 1: 83. 1903, 
but not of Fries.—An M. hydnoides Hennings, Hedwigia 42: 
178, 183. 19043—Ап М. minor Falck, in Móller's Haus- 
schw forsch. 6: 53-55. pl. 6. 1912? 
Type: type of M. irpicinus in Coll. N. Y. State. 
Fructification resupinate, effused, membranaceous, soft, 
loosely attached to the substratum, separable, pinard-yellow 
at first, then olive-ocher, drying a little darker, 
C2 more or less tomentose beneath and whitish, 
- о9 the margin whitish; hymenium at first gyrose- 
Fig. 36 porose, the folds at length prolonged into sub- 
M. pinastri. ulate or Irpex-like teeth; in structure up to 1 
hope ats а. mm. thick, composed of loosely interwoven, 
nodose-septate hyphae 45 џ in diameter, 
deeply staining; no cystidia; spores pale ochraceous in a spore 
collection, distinctly colored, even, broadly ovoid to sub- 
globose, 5-6 4-5 д. 
Fructifications 2-15 em. and more in diameter. 
On compost and earth in mushroom beds and greenhouses, 
and walls of greenhouses and on decaying wood and bark, 
usually coniferous. Vermont to Nebraska and in California 
