1917] 



BURT THELEPHORACEAB OF NORTH AMERICA. VIII 267 



Eavenel, Fungi Car. 5 : 29, and cotype (in Curtis Herb., 

 6080). 



Louisiana: Abita Springs, A. B. Langlois, 2639 in part; St. 

 Martin ville, A. B, Langlois y u, 



Michigan : Ann Arbor, C. H. Kaufman, 21. 



Bahama Islands: Nassau, A. E, Wight, comm. by W. G. Far- 

 low. 



Cuba: San Diego de los Banos, Earle d Murrill, 334, N. Y. 

 Bot. Gard., Fungi of Cuba. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



C. capnoides Ell. & Ev. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. Proc. 1894 : 

 324. 1894; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 11 : 129. 1895. 



Type : type distribution in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 2808. 



This fungus bears its spores singly on conidiophores, as 

 stated in the original description, and is not a basidiomycete. 



C. sordulenta Cooke & Massee in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6 : 650. 

 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 25 : 132. 1889. 



Type : type in Kew Herb. 



This species is not distinct from Thelephora pallescens 

 Schw., whose relationship to Hypochnus thelephoroides (Ell. 

 & Ev.) Burt was pointed out in my comment on the latter in 

 Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 3 : 236. 1916. I have recently prepared 

 a new set of sections from the authentic specimen of Theleph- 

 ora pallescens Schw. in Curtis Herb. This specimen is in 

 fine condition and shows the spores fully as rough-walled or 

 aculeate in aqueous mounts as those of Hypochnus thelepho- 

 roides, which, therefore, becomes a synonym of T. pallescens 

 and should be displaced in my account of our species of 

 Hypochnus by the name Hypochnus pallescens (Schw.) Burt, 

 with synonymy and distribution as follows: 



26. Hypochnus pallescens (Schw.) Burt, n. comb. 



Thelephora pallescens Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. 

 N. S. 4 : 167. 1832. Stereum pallescens Schweinitz in Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6 : 586. 1888. Corticium pallescens (Schw.) Mas- 

 see, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27 : 129. 1890. Thelephora insi/nu- 

 ans Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4 : 167. 1832. 



