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184 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Illustrations: Patouillard, Rev. Myc. 12. pl. 107 bis. f. ба, 
d; Pierce, Torr. Bot. Club Bul. 17 : pl. 110. f. a-i; v. Hóhn. & 
Litsch. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 116 : pl. 3. f. 1. 
Type: type distribution in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 3 : 32. 
Fruetifieations disk-shaped, pezizaeform, scattered or con- 
fluent, somewhat fleshy, drying coriaceous, attached by the 
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Fig. 3. A. Oakesii. Immature basidium, b; flexuous 
paraphyses, f; moħiliform paraphyses, m, some with 
whorl-like clusters of lateral, bottle-brush prongs; spores, 
center, the margin free, elevated, ineurved, whitish and tomen- 
tose on the under side; hymenium concave, pulverulent, dry- 
ing avellaneous; in structure about 600 u thick, composed of 
hyaline hyphae 3-34 шіп diameter, rather thick-walled, some- 
times granule-incrusted, longitudinally arranged and inter- 
woven next to the substratum, eurving outward to bear the 
hymenium, consisting of basidia and filiform paraphyses with 
