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ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



North Carolina: Blowing Rock, G, F. Atkinson, 4322. 



South Carolina: Ravenel, 790 (in Curtis Herb, and in Kew 

 Herb.), under the name Thelephora biennis; Santee Canal, * 

 Ravenel, 1732 (in Curtis Herb, and in Kew Herb.), type of 

 Stereum spongiosum Massee. 



Louisiana: Bogalusa, C. J. Humphrey, 1^66. 



Ohio: Cincinnati, A. P. Morgan, Lloyd Herb., 2627. 



Michigan: Saugatuck, E. A. and S. A. Harper, 654- 



Wisconsin: Milwaukee Co., comm. by Mrs. F. W. Patterson. 



15. T. lutosa Sch w. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. N. S. 4 : 166. 1834. * 

 Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 



Pilei cespitose, densely imbricated, at first somewhat fleshy 

 but at length hard, undulate-plicate, yellowish, almost sub- 

 tomentose with pulverulence, somewhat horizontally attenu- 

 ated behind, margin sublobate, at length inflexed; pileus less 

 than 2 mm. thick, with hyphae 3/i in diameter; hymenium be- 

 coming yellowish, even ; spores olive-buff under the microscope, 

 angular, 5-6 x 3|-4m. 



Cluster about 1| cm. high and broad. 



On the ground in roads and in woods. North Carolina. 



The type is distinct from T. albido-hrunnea, having thinner 

 pileus, finer hyphae, and smaller and paler spores. The pilei 

 were crowded together into a small buff-colored cluster about 

 1| cm. high and broad, somewhat as in Tremellodendron palli- 

 dum (Schw.) ; I failed to find stems at their bases. 



Specimens examined: 

 North Carolina: Salem, Schweinitz (in Herb. Schw.), type. 



16. T. cuticularis Berk. Hooker's Lond. Jour. Bot. 6: 324. 

 1847. Repubhshed in Lea, Catalogue of Plants in Vicinity of 

 Cincinnati 66. d. 1849. Plate 5. fig. 14. 



Type: in Kew Herb,, and a portion of it from Berkeley in 

 Curtis Herb. 



Pilei coriaceous-soft, effuso-reflexed or dimidiate, imbricate, 

 sometimes laterally confluent, drying pinkish buff to cinnamon- 

 brown, with a broad, pale margin, surface radiately rugose, 

 soft, silky fibrillose; substance of the same color as pileus; hy- 

 menium inferior, concave, even, drab to brownish drab; spores 

 umbrinous under the microscope, flattened on one side or some- 

 what kidney-shaped, not angular, echinulate, 8-9 x 6-7m. 



^ A figure will be given in Part II. 



