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BURT THELEPHORACEiE OF NORTH AMERICA. I 201 



6. Hymenium drab, becoming sage-green when crushed in 7 per cent potas- 

 sium hydrate solution; pileus pinkish buff to cinnamon-brown with a 



broad pale margin 16. T. cuticularis 



6. Hymenium ferruginous brown (Rood's brown) to fuscous 7 



7. Pileus, when squamulose, with the fibers matted and agglutinated into ap- 

 pressed and wholly adnate squamules, margin dilated and whitish fimbriate 



becoming entire and concolorous 17. T. intyhacea 



74Pileus not zonate, fibrous-squamulose and usually strigose, margin fibrous- 



fimbriate 18. T. terrestris 



7. Pileus zonate, in other respects resembling the preceding species 



19. T. griseozonata J 

 8. Incrusting and ascending small plants, free branches somewhat terete but 



flattened towards the tips; spores umbrinous 20. T.fimhriata ] 



8. Resupinate on leaves and twigs on the ground and sending up free, simple 



or branching trunks; spores fuscous. Known from Cuba only 21 . T. perplexa 

 8. Incrusting leaves, etc., on the ground and ascending as sessile flabelliform 

 pilei which are dentate at the upper end or deeply divided, honey- 

 yellow to tawny oUvaceous throughout. Known from Cuba only. . . , 



22. T. dentosa 

 8. Typically effused, rising obliquely upward from the support as a cluster of 



small trunks which branch and terminate in spiculous tiipe. 23. T. spicuhsa 



I. Thelephora palmata Scop, ex Fries, Syst. Myc. i:432. 

 1821. Plate 4. fig. 4. 



Clavaria palmata Scop. Fl. Carn. 2: 483. 1760.-Ramaria 

 palmata Holmsk. Fun. Dan. i : 106. pi. .1799. -Merisma 

 foetidum Pers. Syn. Fung. 584. 1801.-M. palmata Pers. Myc. 

 Eur. i:113. 1S22 -Thelephora palmata americana Peck, Rep. 

 N. Y. State Mus. 53 : 857. 1900. 



Illustrations: Greville, Crypt. Fl. i: pi. ^^.-Holmskiold, 

 Fun. Dan. i : pi. of Ramaria palmata.-Krombh.olz, Abbild. und 

 Beschr. pi. 54. f. 24, ;^5.-Nees, System pL 16. f. 151 ^.-Baillon, 

 Dictionn. de Botan. i : 737. /. 7.-Loudon, Encyc. of Plants 

 /. leiSl.-Wmi^Y, Crypt. Flora i: 321. 



Fructification coriaceous-soft, fuscous purple, drying cinna- 

 bar-brown or chestnut-brown, erect, very much branched, with 

 very fetid odor; pileus with numerous somewhat fastigiate, 

 palmate divisions which are even, flattened, dilated above, and 

 with fimbriate and whitish tips; stem simple or soon branched; 

 hymenium amphigenous; spores pale umbrinous under the 

 microscope, sparingly echinulate,10 x 7-8 ix. 



Fructification of American specimens 2-6 cm. high, 1-3 cm. 

 broad; stem 1-H cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick. 



