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BURT THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XV 179 



Montana: Bernice, E. E. Hubert, comm. by J. R. Weir, 12008 (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 63368). 

 Idaho: Priest River, E. E. Hubert, comm. by J. R. Weir, 12021 



(in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 63376). 



3. C. punctulatum Cooke, Grevillea 6: 132. 1878; Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 6: 614. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 129. 

 1890. 



Type: type distribution in Ravenel, Fungi Am., 128. 



Fructifications broadly effused, thin, somewhat hypochnoid, 

 only fragments separable, white at first, becoming between pink- 

 ish buff and cream-color in the herbarium, punctulate at first, at 

 length even and continuous in spots, fibrillose, the margin thin- 

 ning out, concolorous, indeterminate; in section about 135 [l 

 thick, not colored, with hyphae loosely interwoven, 4-43^ u- in 

 diameter, not incrusted, occasionally nodose-septate; no gloeo- 

 cystidia; spores imbedded in all regions of the fructification are 

 probably chlamydospores; basidia bearing sterigmata or spores 

 not demonstrated; spores at surface of hymenium hyaline, even, 

 < perhaps becoming minutely rough, 6 X 4J^-5 [l, copious. 



Fructifications up to 6 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide. 



On rotten pine logs and on small splinters and rubbish con- 

 solidated by the mycelium. New Jersey and South Carolina. 



The punctulate hymenium of C. punctulatum is distinctive in 

 the several specimens from the original collection now in three 

 herbaria; the presence of imbedded spores in all regions of the 

 fructification should prove another helpful character for the recog- 

 nition of this species. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ravenel, Fungi Am., 128. 

 New Jersey: Belleplain, C. L. Shear, 1248. 

 South Carolina: Aiken, H. W. Ravenel, 2334, type (in Kew Herb. 



and in Ravenel, Fungi Am., 128). 



4. C. venereum Ellis & Cragin, Jour. Myc. 1: 58. 1885; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6: 615. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 137. 

 1890; Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 5: 128. 1914. 



Corticium Bresadolae Bourdot, Rev. Sci. Bourb. 23: 6. 1910; 

 Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 27: 233. 1911. 



