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Stanwood, C. J. Humphrey, 6395, 7395 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 42935 and 11042). 
California: Palo Alto, W. A. Murrill & L. S. Abrams, 1240 
(in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
British Columbia: J. Macoun, in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 
1936; Kootenai Mts., near Salmo, J. H. Weir, 494 (in Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb., 21796); Sidney, J. Macoun, 79, and an 
unnumbered collection (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 9967, 
6687). 
24. Н. epichlora (Berk. & Curtis) Cooke, Grevillea 8 : 147. 
1880; басс. Syll. Fung. 6 : 596. 1888. 
Corticium epichlorum Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 1: 178. 
1873; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27 : 119. 1890.—H ymeno- 
chaete asperata Ell. & Ev. Torr. Bot. Club Bul. 27 : 50. 1890; 
басс. Syll. Fung. 16 : 188. 1902. 
Type: type distribution in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 5 : 24. 
Fructification resupinate, broadly effused, thin, adnate, 
cracked, drying Isabella-color to tawny olive, with a thin olive- 
ocher subieulum forming a slight 
margin; in structure 75-120 џ thick, Га ҮЙҮҮ 1229077 p 
with the hyphal layer composed of Zn и ША 
loosely arranged, ascending, thin- г 
walled hyphae 24 џ in diameter, в: 21. 
colored like the fructification, in Section X 68. From type. 
some plaees forming a narrow, 
dense zone next to the substratum; setae scattered, 36-45 x 
43-5 д, protruding up to 30 y, starting from different levels 
of the hyr »nium and subhymenium, tapering upward to a 
slender ~ лпі; spores in spore collection white, even, 3-44 х 
2—24 г iattened on one side. 
Fructifications 5-101-3 em. and broken off at both ends 
—probably large. 
On bark of dead Symplocos, Vitis, and other frondose 
woods. Alabama to Louisiana and in Mexico. August to 
November. | 
Н. epichlora has some resemblance in aspect to H. corru- 
gata on account of its cracked hymenial surface but it is dis- 
