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 240 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



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 7. Fructification light pinkish cinnamon, adnata; hyphae 2-2^ fx in diameter, %*' 



hyaline ; spores 7-8 X 6 n 9. C. avellanea ^ 



8. Cystidia large, more than 5 m in diameter 9 



8. Cystidia small, only 3-5 At in diameter 11 



9. Spores more than 7 fi long; fructification dark-colored, sepia, and buffy 



citrine to olive-brown 10 



9. Spores 3X2 /n; fructification primuline-yellow 16. C. flava 



10. Fructification very dark, drying Saccardo's umber to olive-brown 

 throughout; hyphae rigid; cystidia protruding up to 120 jj..... 

 13. C. umhrina^\ 



10. Fructification paler, buffy citrine and Saccardo's olive to brownish / 



olive; hyphae paler and thinner- walled, often collapsed; cystidia V 



protruding up to 100 ft 14' O. olivacea * 



10. Fructification drying sepia; hyphae nearly black, rigid; cystidia \ 



protruding up to 60 /*; spores 9-10X4^-6* fi 15. C. atrocitierea ^' 



11. Spores 6-7X2^-3 fi; fructification very thin, adnate, drying raw sienna, -,-> -j/ 



suggestive of the conidial stroma of an Hypoxylon 17. C laeticolor ;b'*'''*''^ 



11. Spores 4-4iX2^-3 /t, pale and concolorous with the hyphae; fructifica- 

 tion cream-color to Naples yellow throughout; hyphae loosely inter- '"-4/.^ 

 woven, rigid, abundantly nodose-septate 18. C. hyssoidea ^^^ 



11. Spores about 5X3^ /it, dark-colored; fructification olive-lake to olive- 

 citrine; hyphae lax, hyaline Id. C. oliva^cens 



1. Coniophora cerebella Pers. Myc. Eur. 1 : 155. 1822 ; 

 Scliroeter, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien 3 : 430. 1888 ; Bresadola, Ann. 

 Myc. 1 : 110. 1903. 



Thelephora cerebella Pers. Syn. Fung. 580. 1801; Alb. & 

 Schw. Consp. Fung. 282. 1805. Thelephora puteana Schu- 

 macher, PL Saell. 2 : 397. 1803 ; Fries, Syst. Myc. 1 : 448. 1821 ; 

 Elenchus Fung. 1 : 194. 1828; Pers. Myc. Eur. 1 : 144. 1822. 

 Corticium (subg. Coniophora) puteanmn (Schum.) Fries, 

 Hym. Eur. 657. 1874; Cooke, Grevillea 8:88. 1880. Como- 

 phora puteana (Schum.) Karsten, Finska Vet.-Soc. Bidrag 

 Natur och Folk 37:159. 1882; Finl. Basidsv. 435. 1889; 

 Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung. 113. /. 253, 1884; Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 6:647. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 25:129. 

 1889. 



Illustrations: FI. Dan. pi. 2035; Patouillard, Tab. Anal. 

 Fung. /. 253, 579; MoUer, Hausschwamm-forsch. 1 : pL 3, f. 7; 

 pi. 4. /. 8, 9, 11; pi. 5. /. 15; Hennings in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. I. 1**:/. 67 F, G. 



Fructification broadly effused, suborbicular, fleshy, separ- 

 able from the substratum, drying Isabella-color and tawny 

 olive to Brussels brown, the margin whitish and mucedinous ; 

 hymenium even, undulate or gyrose, with low and broad. 



