[Vol. 3 

 228 ANNALS OF THE MISSOUKI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



New York: Helderberg Mountains, C. H. Peck (in Coll. N. Y. 

 State, under the name Zygodesmus hicolor C. & E.). 



New Jersey: Belleplain, C. L. Shear, 1253; Newfield, J, B, 

 Ellis, in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 420. 



Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, Schweinitz (in Herb. Schweinitz, 

 as the Thelephora umhrina of Schweinitz, Syn. N. Am. 

 Fungi, No. 578). 



Maryland : Takoma Park, C. L\ Shear, 1061, 1085. 



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



South Carolina: M. A. Curtis, 2485, 3700, types of Thele- 

 phora granosa (in Kew Herb.). 



Alabama: Peters, type of T. granosa (in Kew Herb.). 



O 18. H. coriarius (Peck) Burt, n. comb. 



Grandinia coriaria Peck, Buffalo Soc. Nat. Hist. Bui. 1 :61. 

 1873; N. Y. State Mus. Eept. 26:71. 1874. Hypochnus 

 fulvo-cinctus Bresadola, I. E. Accad. Agiati Atti III. 3:116. 

 1897; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14:227. 1900. 

 Type : in Coll. N. Y. State. 



Fructification effused, tomentose, membranaceous, separa- 

 ble from the substratum, under side and margin ochraceous- 

 tawny, upper side and minute crowded gran- 

 ules brownish olive; in structure 200-350/a 

 thick, composed of closely arranged, some- 

 what interwoven, colored, thin-walled, occa- 

 -p. jg sionally nodose-septate, hyphae 2i/2i^ in diam- 



H. coriarius. etcr, forming occasional rope-like strands 

 ft?andx640^^^ ucxt to the substratum ; basidia with 4 ster- 

 igmata; spores darker colored than the hy- 

 phae, subglobose-angular, aculeate, the body 5-6ia in diame- 

 ter; KHO solution usually becomes dark colored next to the 

 sections and changes the hymenial layer to sage-green. 

 Fructifications about 3-10 cm. long, l%-4 cm. broad. 

 On rotten wood, noted also on old leather and thallus of 

 Peltigera aphthosa. Vermont to South Carolina and west- 

 ward to Wisconsin. August to November. 



This species is related to H. hotryoides but may be dis- 

 tinguished from it by the more olivaceous color of the granu- 



