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States, it is possible that it is a North American endemic species 

 which became established in Sweden as an outlying station, com- 

 parable with cases of Stereum rufum, Stereum Murrayi, etc. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 2807, under the name Cor- 



ticium scutellare; Ell. & Ev., Fungi Col., 104, under the name 



Corticium scutellare. 

 Sweden: Femsjo, E. Fries, type of Thelephora calcea var. glebulosa 



(in Fries Herb., and fragment in Burt Herb.), L. Romell, 185, 



211, and Romell & Burt, two gatherings; Stockholm, L. Romell, 



321, 322, 324, 325. 

 Canada: J. Macoun, 1, 34; Lower St. Lawrence Valley, J. Ma- 



court, 57. 

 Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt, two gatherings. 

 New York: Bolton, C. H. Peck, 9; Clearwater, G. F. Atkinson, 



5046; Floodwood, C. H. Peck, 11; Ithaca, G. F. Atkinson, 941,* 



22972; Schuylerville, C. H. Peck, 20. 

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



2807, and in Ell. & Ev., Fungi Col., 104. 

 Pennsylvania: State College, L. 0. Overholts, 4809 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 56119). 

 Michigan: Mass, C. J. Humphrey, 1662 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



17607). 

 Wisconsin: Lake Glencoe, E. T. & S. A. Harper, 853. 

 Idaho: Priest River, J. R. Weir, 40, 64, and 6350 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 58387). 

 British Columbia: Kootenai Mts., near Salmo, J. R. Weir, 461, 



463, 533 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 9119, 12631, 20973). 



19. C. vescum Burt, n. sp. 



Type: in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Fructifications effused, closely adnate, very thin, not at all 

 separable, from white to pale drab-gray in the herbarium, even, 

 not shining, not cracked, the margin thinning out, indeterminate; 

 in section 20-30 [i thick, not colored, very compact, composed of 

 very short, erect hyphae which terminate in basidia; no gloeo- 

 cystidia; spores hyaline, even, allantoid, 4J^ X Yr^ (* 



Fructifications up to 6 cm. long, 3 cm. wide. 



