1916] 



BUBT THELEPHOBACEAE OF NOBTH AMEBIC A VI 235 



60 X 12/*, emerging up to 25/m; basidia with 4 sterigmata ; 

 spores globose, becoming pinkish buff and tuberculate, the 

 body 6/jt. in diameter. 



Fructification more than 7 cm. long, more than 4 cm. 

 broad. 



On bark of rotten frondose wood in woods. Louisiana 

 and Jamaica. September to November. 



This species is included in HypocJmus on account of its 

 mature spores, whose tubercules are short and small. The 

 immature spores are hyaline and even; hence immature 

 specimens of this species are likely to be referred to Penio- 

 phora. The presence in the hymenium of dichotomously 

 branched, antler-shaped, hyphal branches such as are present 

 in Corticiiim investiens and Grandinia granulosa is a unique 

 character which I have not observed in any species of 

 Peniophora and which should make possible identification of 

 immature specimens. In habit, H. peniophoroides resembles 

 Corticium portentosum and Thelephora pallescens Schw. 



Specimens examined: 

 Louisiana: St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, v. 

 Jamaica: Mooretown, F. 8, Earle, type, N. Y. Bot. Gard., 



Plants of Jamaica, 540. ^ a ^ a ^-^ , ^ \ 



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O 26. H. thelephoroides (Ell. & Ev.) Burt, n. comb. 



Corticium thelephoroides Ellis & Everhart, Jour. Myc. 

 1:88. 1885; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:630. 1888. 



Type: in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and portions in Kew 

 Herb., Farlow Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Fructification effused, adnate, thick, com- 

 pact, at first pale olive-buff, becoming warm 

 buff in the herbarium, the under side and 

 very narrow margin Saccardo's umber; in 

 ^structure 150-1200/* thick, with (1) a densely 

 interwoven layer about 60/x thick next to sub- 

 stratum and (2) with a hymenial layer com- u thelephoroides. 

 posed of hyphae, antler-shaped hyphal Antier-shaped or- 

 branches, and numerous imbedded, concolor- ^"' ^^^^ 

 ous spores; hyphae thick-walled, not nodose-septate, l%-2/* 



