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402 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
1. Leucogaster liosporus Hesse, Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 13: 190. 
1882; Hypog. Deutschl. 1: 70-71. 1891; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 
9: 281. 1891.—Octaviania silesiaca Becker, Die Natur 35: 356. 
1886, fide Schroeter in Cohn, Kryptog.-Fl. von Schlesien 31: 710- 
711. 1889.—Octaviania ? Gautieria ? pityophila Becker, Die 
Natur 35:356. 1886, fide Schroeter in Cohn, Kryptog.-Fl. von 
Schlesien 31: 710-711. 1889. 
Illustrations: Hesse, Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 13: f. 1-6; Нуров. 
Deutschl. 1: рі. 3. f. 12-15. 
Type: location unknown to us. 
Fruetifieations very irregular, variable in size, citron-yellow, 
odor none; fibrils free, branched, becoming 3 mm. thick at 
maturity; peridium thick, 1.5-2.5 mm. thick when fresh (teste 
Hesse), 100-140 y. when preserved in alcohol, smooth, composed 
of thick yellowish hyphae; gleba white; cavities polygonal, larger 
at the center than at the peridium, filled at maturity; septa com- 
posed of long, thin hyphae; basidia broadly clavate to subglobose; 
sterigmata very short; spores 12 y in diameter, rough, surrounded 
by a gelatinous sheath. 
In birch woods. Central Europe. ; 
А specimen іп the von Hoehnel Herbarium, 2605а, agrees with 
the description of this species, except that the cavities are elon- 
gated radially from the base, as Hesse has figured in one case for 
L. floccosus, and are not filled at maturity. The Leucophlebs 
stage of this specimen shows spores borne terminally on short 
branches of the cavity hyphae. These spores resemble basidio- 
spores but have smoother and thinner walls and small germ pores. 
The sporiferous branch of a cavity hypha usually remains at- 
tached to the spore. 
Specimens examined: ; 
Austria: Reinberg bei Altenmarkt, Coronnathal, Fr. von 
Hoehnel, 2605a (in von Hoehnel Herb. at Farlow Herb., Harvard 
niv.). 
2. Leucogaster floccosus Hesse, Bot. Centralbl. 40: 1-4, 33-36. 
1889; Нуров. Deutschl. 1: 68-70. 1891; Saccardo, Syll. Fung: 
9:281. 1891. 
Illustrations: Hesse, Bot. Centralbl. 40: pl. 1, 2. f. 1-9; Hypo: 
