1919] 



BURT SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON MERULIUS • 145 



Alabama: Peters, 1^28 (in Curtis Herb.) ; Havana, W. T release 

 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 4071) ; Montgomery County, R. P. 

 Burke, 59, 1U (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 18206, 19801). 



Texas: Ravenel, Dr. Billings, 114 (in Curtis Herb.). 



Missouri: Creve Coeur, E. A. Burt (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 

 54328). 



M. rubellus Peck. — This is a good species, although regarded 

 by me formerly as a synonym of M. incamatus Schw. in my 

 work on 'Merulius in North America.' The description given 

 there on p. 310 is correct for M. rubellus, as are also the dis- 

 tribution of the species and the citations of specimens exam- 

 ined. M. rubellus should be written in place of M. incamatus 

 in the key to species ; and the citations of M. incamatus in the 

 synonymy and the last sentence of the comment on this species 

 on p. 311 should be deleted. 



M. hirsutus Burt. — Additional collections of this species 

 which may be cited are : 

 Mexico : Jalapa, W. A. <& Edna L. Murrill, 65 (in N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55238) ; Oaxaca, 



Santa Ines del Monte, Zimatlan, 3000 ft. altitude, C. Con- 



zatti, 1377 (in Farlow Herb.). 



M. lacrymans (Wulf.) Fr. — As this species is rare in North 



America, the following collections are recorded as additions 



to the list formerly published : 



Massachusetts: Boston, on floor, tables, and walls up to a 

 height of about 4 ft. in a laboratory of Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, W. G. Farlow (in Farlow Herb.). 



New Jersey: Newfield, on damp wall, Lucian Fish, from Ellis 

 Herb, (in Farlow Herb.). 



M. rimosus Berk. — In my work on 'Merulius in North Amer- 

 ica,' p. 327, 1 regarded this species as a probable synonym of 

 M. niveus but had not been able to decide positively, because 

 the cotype could not be found in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. I 

 have examined a portion of the cotype, communicated by Ellis, 

 now in Farlow Herb., and it differs in no respect from M. 



niveus. 



