1925] 



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Austria: Tirol, Innsbruck, V. Litschauer, 3 specimens under the 



name P. serialis. 

 Louisiana: Bogalusa, C. J. Humphrey, 5547. 

 British Columbia: Revelstoke, C. W. Dodge, 1639 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 58784); Sidney, J. Macoun, 9 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 5768); Victoria, /. Macoun, 541 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 63728). 



25. P. phyllophila Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 25: 150. 

 1889; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 238. 1891; Rea, Brit. Basid., 697. 

 1922. 



Asterostromella epiphylla v. Hohnel & Litschauer, K. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 116: 773. textf. 3. 1907. 



Type: type distribution in Ravenel, Fungi Am., 457, under the 

 name Corticium epiphyllum. 



Fructification broadly effused, thin, closely adnate, not at all 

 separable, whitish, becoming olive-buff in the herbarium, the 

 margin thinning out; in section 40-80 \l thick, not colored, com- 

 posed of suberect, interwoven, branching, thin-walled hyphae 

 2 (jl in diameter, not incrusted, not nodose-septate, bearing clus- 

 ters of basidia and branching paraphyses ; also present occasional, 

 tapering cystidia not incrusted, 30-45 X 4-10 [l, usually im- 

 mersed, occasionally protruding up to 32 \l beyond the basidia; 

 paraphyses colorless, branching at the hymenial surface into an 

 antler-shaped form with very slender prongs; spores published 

 by v. Hohn. & Lits. as 10-22 X 1^-3 {x. 



Fructifications up to 5 cm. in diameter. 



On fallen frondose leaves in South Carolina and on fallen de- 

 caying frondose limbs in Florida and Central America. 



P. phyllophila is apparently a tropical species occurring more 

 frequently on epidermis of small fallen twigs and ranging north- 

 ward to South Carolina. I have studied specimens of the type 

 distribution in the copies of Ravenel, Fungi Americana, of 

 Farlow Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, 

 United States Department of Agriculture Herbarium, and Burt 

 Herbarium, and find these specimens to be the same in structure 

 and all showing the distinctive antler-shaped paraphyses em- 

 phasized by v. Hohnel & Litschauer, and also tapering, non- 



