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 190 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



13740, 14847); Oriente, comm. by J. R. Weir 10617 (in Mo. 

 Bot. Gard. Herb., 56235); Pinar del Rio Province, Earle & 

 Murrill, 196, 201, 208, 295, 312, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb., P. Wilson, 11570, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in 

 Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61494); Puerto Principe Province, 

 Earle & Murrill, 582, 602, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; 

 Santiago de Cuba Province, Earle & Murrill, 460, 467, comm. 

 by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Porto Rico: Ponce, F. S. Earle, 117; Rio Piedras, J. R. Johnston, 

 982, 982a, 972a (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 9849, 61355, 61356), 

 /. A. Stevenson, 3597, 5158 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 12720, 

 6807) ; Utuado, N. L. Button & J. F. Cowell, 999 (in N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61492). 



Jamaica: W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 40, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56288); Castleton Gardens 

 and Chester Vale, W. A. & E.L. Murrill, 52, 314, respectively, 

 comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. ; Hope Gardens, F. S. Earle, 

 178, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Montserrat : Roches, J. A. Shafer, 915 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., 

 and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61473). 



Argentina: R. Fries, 138, comm. by L. Romell, 333. 



Philippine Islands: comm. by C. G. Lloyd, 11215 (in Mo. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., 58688). 



Africa: Natal, Durban, P. A. van der Bijl, 2, 36 (in Mo. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., 58800, 58834) ; Unkomaas, P. A. van der Bijl, 1151 

 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 62079). 



10. C. bombycinum (Sommerf.) Bresadola, I. R. Accad. 

 Agiati Atti III. 3: 111. 1897; Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. 

 Bui. 27: 233. 1911; Wakefield & Pearson, Brit. Myc. Soc. 

 Trans. 6: 138. textf. 1919; Rea, Brit. Basid. 674. 1922. 



Thelephora bombycina Sommerf elt, Fl. Lapp. Suppl. 284. 1826; 

 Fries, Elench. Fung. 1: 211. 1828. 



Type: in Sommerf elt Herb., in Univ. of Christiania Herb., a 

 fragment in Burt Herb. 



Fructifications irregularly effused, thick, membranaceous-soft, 

 pieces separable, at first white, becoming pinkish buff to cream- 

 buff in the herbarium, even or varying rough to a hydnoid sur- 



