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362 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
32. H. episphaeria (Schw.) Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 
27:111. 1890; Cooke, Grevillea 20:11. 1891; Saec. Syll. 
Fung. 11: 123. 1895. 
Thelephora episphaeria Schweinitz in Fries, Elenchus Fung. 
1 : 225, 1828; Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4: 169. 1832. 
Type: in Herb. Schweinitz, Kew Herb., and Curtis Herb. 
Fructification resupinate, effused, closely adnate, conform- 
ing to the irregularities of the substratum, drying buckthorn- 
brown to tawny olive; in structure up to 90 y thick, with hyphae 
rigid, interwoven, 2-21 ш in diameter, giv- 
ing their color to the fructification; setae 
60-90 9-12 u, emerging up to 15 и, cylin- 
H. episphaeria. dric, obtuse, starting directly from the 
Section с 68. From dark, opaque, delimiting zone next to the 
net substratum, as differentiated in perma- 
nent preparations which were treated with KHO solution and 
stained with eosin; no spores found in type, but hyaline, even, 
allantoid, 4-5X 11-2 шіп collections referred here. 
Fruetifieations 1-2 em. broad, 2-5 em. long. 
Under side of dead frondose limbs—type on Alnus and Dia- 
trype stigma. Vermont to Pennsylvania and Illinois. 
H. episphaeria resembles H. arida and H. cinnamomea in 
aspect, but is thinner, lacks a hyphal layer, and has its setae 
starting from the substratum, or very near it, and extending 
up through the hymenium. 
Specimens examined: 
Vermont: Middlebury, C. G. Lloyd, 07221 (in Lloyd Herb., 
and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55558). 
Massachusetts: Weston, 4. B. Seymour, T 19 (in Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Herb., 18358). 
New York: Albany, C. G. Lloyd, 07120 (in Lloyd Herb., and in 
Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55481). 
Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schwei- 
nitz, in Kew Herb., and in Curtis Herb.) ; Trexlertown, W. 
Herbst, comm. by Lloyd Herb., 3612. 
Ohio: Cincinnati, 4. P. £ L. V. Morgan, under the name H. 
insularis, comm. by U. S. Dept. Agr. Herb. 
Illinois: River Forest, E. T. Ф S. A. Harper, 742. 
