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6. Leucogaster araneosus Zeller & Dodge, sp. nov. 
Fructificationes globosae, 0.6 cm. in diametro metientes, servatae “snuff-brown”’ 
vel “bister” (Ridgway); funieuli magni sed non prominentes, pauci, semi-innati, 
subramosi; peridium 130-180 » crassitudine, simplex, hyphis dilute brunneis tenuis- 
simis dense contextum; gleba alba, fulvis eum maculis; locelli subglobosi, impleti; 
septa tenua, 40-50 и crassitudine inter hymenia, compacta, stratis tribus com- 
nosita c Йал ақы 45 1*1 L 1 4. a: 1 . 1 1- . ш. 4. : 24% . 
araneosum (unde nomen); paraphyses nulli; basidia hyalina, granulato-guttulata, 
8-10 x 6-8 u, piriformia, in pedicellis ad 300 и longitudine imposita, tetraspora; 
sporae hyalinae, globosae, alveolato-reticulatae, angulis alveolarum prominentibus 
velut spinis obtusis, in vaginis gelatinosis inclusae, 8-11 и in diametro. 
Habitat in Carolina boreali. Aestate. 
Type: in Thaxter Herb. 
Fructifications globose, 0.6 em. in diameter in preserved ma- 
terial, snuff-brown to bister; fibrils large but not prominent, few, 
half-immersed, somewhat branched; peridium 130-180 y thick, 
simplex, of closely woven, very slender, light brown hyphae; 
gleba white with tawny spots; cavities subglobose, filled; septa 
thin, 40-50 » thick between hymenia, compact, of 3 layers, the 
middle layer being light brown, the other 2 layers hyaline; 
hymenial layer arachnoid; paraphyses none; basidia hyaline, 
granulate-guttulate, 8-10 x 6-8 u, pyriform, on pedicels up to 
300 р. long, 4-spored; spores hyaline, globose, alveolate-reticulate, 
angles of alveoli projecting as blunt spines, in a gelatinous sheath, 
8-11 шіп diameter. 
North Carolina. Summer. 
Specimens examined: 
North Carolina: Cranberry, В. Thaater, 96 (in Thaxter Herb. 
and Farlow Herb. at Harvard Univ.). 
7. Leucogaster anomalus (Peck) Zeller & Dodge, comb. nov. 
Hymenogaster anomalus Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 116: 31- 
32. 1907 (also cited ав N. Y. State Ed. Dept. Bull. 404: 31-32. 
1907, and as Rept. State Botanist [N. Y.] 1906: 31-32. 1907); 
Saccardo & Trotter in Sace. Syll. Fung. 21: 496. 1912. 
Type: in Coll. N. Y. State and in U. S. Nat. Herb. | 
Fructifications globose to irregular, 1-2.5 em. in diameter, 
einnamon-buff, clay-color, and tawny olive to Mikado brown 
above, Hay's russet and liver-brown below, “glabrous, slightly 
lacunose, often with a root-like strand of mycelium at the base, 
