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ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 



2904. 

 Wisconsin: M. C. Jensen, comm. by C. J. Humphrey, 2502 (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 5060). 

 Idaho: Coolin, /. R. Weir, 11133, 11527, 11940 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 56717, 56722, 56718); Kaniksu National 



Forest, Priest River, /. R. Weir, 65, 110 (the latter in Mo. 



Bot. Gard. Herb., 13272). 

 British Columbia: Kootenai Mts., near Salmo, J. R. Weir, 482, 



510, 513 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 18282, 3771, 1739); 



Sidney, J. Macoun, 81 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 5887); 



Squamish, J. Macoun, 533 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55186). 

 Washington: Bellingham, J. R. Weir, 7559 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 55467, 55790); Stanwood, C. J. Humphrey, 7358 



(in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 20103). 

 New Mexico: Tejano Experiment Station, near Albuquerque, 



W . H. Long & P. W. Seay, comm. by W. H. Long, 21313 



(in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 54884). 



63. S. ferreum Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 10: 

 332. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 586. 1888; Massee, Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 197. 1890. Plate 6, fig. 63. 



An Stereum areolatum Fries? 

 Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications corky, effused, usually resupinate, sometimes 

 becoming barely reflexed on the upper side and there drab, 



nearly even ; hymenium somewhat colliculose, 

 not shining, cinnamon-drab to drab ; in struc- 

 ture up to 1 100 n thick, with the intermediate 

 layer 500 ^ thick, bordered by a darker zone 

 next to substratum and composed of colored, 

 thick-walled, somewhat ascending, inter- 

 woven hyphae 3-3 J ^ in diameter; hymenial 

 layer up to 600 11 thick, containing in all parts 

 innumerable incrusted cystidia, minutely 

 Fig. 35. S. ferreum. rough, either colored throughout or colored 



Section of hymenial under the i ncrustat i on 20-25X5-7 M , pro- 



region of type, X 488. ,. .. 



Shows rough, colored trudm g up to 6 M ; spores hyaline, even, 



cystidia. globose, 4 fx in diameter, but few found. 



