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 204 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Missouri: St. Louis, N. M, Glatfelter (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 

 42559). 



3. T. caespitulans Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. N. S. 4: 166. 

 1831.1 



Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 



Fructification erect, coriaceous, dusky drab to olive-brown 

 below, paler above, very much branched, forming clusters 2J 

 cm. high by 2| cm. broad; pileus with numerous divisions joined 

 together into a solid base but assurgent above and pressed to- 

 gether closely, compressed, subcanaliculate, frequently obtuse 

 and whitish at the apex; hymenium amphigenous; spores um- 

 brinous under the microscope, sparingly tuberculate, 7-8 x 

 5-6iU. 



On the ground in mixed woods, Vermont to South Carolina, 

 and in dense coniferous woods, Washington. September. Rare. 



This species is related to T. palmata but is more olivaceous, 

 and it is probably inodorous, at least no odor has been noted. 

 The dimensions for the clusters given above, as stated by 

 Schweinitz, are probably maximum dimensions, for the speci- 

 mens recently collected have been rather smaller. My Vermont 

 specimens were growing with the thick, solid base buried in 

 sandy ground in a wood road; they have dried pallid except at 

 the base and are slightly pubescent. The general habit of 

 this species is somewhat suggested by a small cluster of Tremel- 

 lodendron pallidum (Schw.) Atk. 



Specimens examined: 

 Vermont: Lake Dunmore, E. A. Burt. 

 Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schw., 



Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila.). 

 South Carolina: Santee Canal, Ravenel, 1660 (in Curtis Herb. 



under name T. vialis). 

 Washington: Chebalis, C. J. Humphrey, 1287 ; Bingen, W. N. 

 Suksdorf, 689. 



4. T. scissilis Burt, n. sp. Plate 4. fig. 8. 

 Type: in Burt Herb. 



Fructifications gregarious, coriaceous, erect, clavariform, 

 branched, longitudinally ridged by the bases of numerous, 



1 A figure will be given in Part II. 



