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104 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
No. 2038, type and an unnumbered specimen (both in Kew 
Herb.). 
IS. S. pallidum (Pers.) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stereums, 
31. tert f. 536, 550. 1913. Plate 3, fig. 13, 14. 
Craterella pallida Persoon, Ic. et Descr. Fung. 1: 3. pl. 1. 
f. 3. 1798.—Thelephora pallida Persoon, Syn. Fung. 565. 
1801; Myc: Eur. 1: 111. 1822; Fries, Hym. Eur. 633. 
1874; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 527. 1888.— Helvella pannosa 
Sowerby, Col. Figs. Eng. Fungi, pl. 155. 1788, in part.—Thele- 
phora pannosa Sowerby ex Fries, in part, and T. pannosa var. 
pallida (Pers.) Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 430. 1821.—T. Sowerbeyi 
Berkeley, Outlines Brit. Fungi, 266. 1860; Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. III. 15: 320. 1865; Fries, Hym. Eur. 633. 1874; Saec. 
Syll. Fung. 6: 522. 1888.—Stereum Sowerbeyi (Berk.) Massee, 
Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 164. 1890.—Bresadolina pallida 
(Pers. Brinkmann, Ann. Myc. 7:289. 1909. 
Illustrations: Persoon, Ic. et Descr. Fung. 1: pl. 1. f. 3; 
Sowerby, Col. Figs. Eng. Fungi, pl. 155; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 
4. Stip. Stereums, tert f. 536, 550. 
Fructifications cespitose, laterally confluent, 
infundibuliform, coriaceous-spongy, rather thick, 
becoming cartridge-buff to cream-color in the 
herbarium, the upper side strigose-squamose; 
stem short, villose at the base; hymenium with 
0 slight, very obtuse, radial folds, under a lens 
Q more or less setulose with hyaline hairs; cystidia 
N hair-like, not incrusted, cylindric, 6-8 y in di- 
ameter, protruding 10-50 « beyond the basidia, 
usually very numerous but sometimes only few 
found; spores hyaline, even, flattened on one 
side, 6-8X4-5 y. 
Fructifications 1-3 cm. in diameter, 2-3 em. high. 
On the ground in woods. Vermont to North 
Fig. 6. Carolina. July to November. Rare. 
S. pallidum. American specimens of S. pallidum agree 
Masse ica well with the European specimen received from 
x 665. Tra, Bresadola, and, like the latter, are paler than 
Bresadola. the otherwise excellent figures of Thelephora 
