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4. Drying ochroleucous, basidia at or near the surface in tissue not 

 sharply differentiated as a layer from tissue near substratum; much 

 crystalline matter about 100 /* below surface. On Alnus, South 



Carolina 9. 8. scariosa 



4. Drying some variety of brown 5 



4. Drying fuscous to black 6 



6. Drying cacao-brown (testaceous of Saccardo's 'Chromotaxia') ; separable 

 from substratum; resembling ^8^. incrustans but with margin soon de- 

 tached and spores 6-7X41^-5 fj.. On juniper, Alabama 2. 8. degluhens 



5. Blue-purple when fresh, drying tawny olive to Saccardo's umber where 

 directly on the wood; adnate to substratum; 30-45 /t thick; basidia 



7-10X6-8 fi', spores 6-7X3-5 /* iO. 8. podlachica 



5. Drying cinnamon-brown; adnate to substratum; 100-140 /t thick; scattered 

 paraphyses with bushy-branched, brown tops rise 45-60 /* above the 



basidia. On Magnolia, Delaware 11. 8, cinnamomea 



6. Hay's brown when moist, drying fuscous, the margin pale cartridge- 

 buff; separable from substratum; 500-600 fi thick. On Populus, 



Idaho 12. 8. adusta 



6. Drying blackish plumbeous; adnate to substratum; 150-200 /* thick, 



the margin indeterminate. On Populus, Washington 13. 8.plumhea 



6. Grayish when moist, drying dark mouse-gray and shining; adnate to 

 substratum; 50-160 /i thick, the margin indeterminate. On very 

 rotten wood. New England 14-8. atrata 



1. Sebacina incrustans Pers. ex Tulasne, Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 Bot. V. 15: 225. pi 10. f. 6-10. 1872; Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 13: 

 36. 1873. Plate 27, fig. 13. 



Corticium incrustans Persoon, Obs. Myc. 1:39. 1796. 

 Thelephora incrustans Persoon, Syn. Fung. 573. 1801 ; Fries, 

 Syst. Myc. 1 : 448. 1821. Thelephora sehacea Persoon, Myc. 

 Eur. 1:155. 1822; Fries, Elench. Fung. 1:214. 1828; Hym. 

 Eur. 637. 1874; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 6: 540. 18S8. Corticium 

 sebaceum Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27:127. 1891. 

 Merisma cristatum Persoon, Syn. Fung. 583. 1801. Thele- 

 phora cristata Fries, Syst. Myc. 1 : 434. 1821 ; Hym. Eur. 637. 

 1874; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 6: 539. 1888. Sebacina incrustans 

 Tul. ex Bresadola, in part (Hym. Hung. Kmet.), I. E. Acad. 

 Sci. Agiati III. 3: 117. 1897. 



Illustrations : Tulasne, loc. cit. Persoon, Com. Fung. Clav. 

 pi. 4. f. 4; Berkeley, Outlines Brit. Fung. pi. 17. f. 6; Brefeld, 

 Untersuch. Myk. l\pl. 6. f. 22-26. Hennings in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. (I. 1 **) : 91. /. 59 C, D; Nees, 

 System pi. 34. /. 256 B; Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung. /. 155; 

 and Essai Tax. Hym. 25. /. 17 a, b; Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. f>'.pl. 

 7. f. ll.8ee Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 20 : 945 for references to 

 some additional illustrations which I have not seen. 



