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BURT THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XV 259 



New Hampshire: Chocorua, W. G. Farlow, 31 and unnumbered 



specimen. 

 Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt. 

 New York: Bronx Park, L. M. Underwood (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61594); Ithaca, G. F. At- 



kinson, 3087; Earner, H. D. House (in N. Y. State Mus. Herb., 



and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 54365, 54362). 

 New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



Herb. 

 Maryland: Takoma Park, C. L. Shear, 1338. 

 South Carolina: Hartsville, W. C. Coker, 3947 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 57415). 

 Kentucky: Crittenden, C. G. Lloyd, 3124. 

 Missouri: Creve Coeur, F. P. McWhorter (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 57451). 

 British Columbia : Sidney, J. Macoun, 74, 80, in part (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 5749, 5750). 

 Mexico: Orizaba, W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 763, comm. by N. Y. 



Bot. Gard. Herb., 54634. 



69. C. Litschaueri Burt, n. sp. 



Type : in Burt Herb. 



Fructifications broadly effused, adnate, thin, somewhat mem- 

 branaceous, small pieces separable when moistened, between 

 ivory-yellow and olive-buff in the herbarium, even, becoming 

 somewhat cracked, not shining, the margin thinning out; in 

 section 200 \k thick, not colored, composed of loosely interwoven, 

 thick-walled hyphae 3 y. in diameter, nodose-septate, not in- 

 crusted; gloeocystidia flexuous, 45-120 X 4}^-6 jj,, in all regions 

 of the fructification; spores hyaline, even, cylindric, flattened on 

 one side, 9-10 X 3-33^ (x, four to a basidium. 



Fragments of fructification 2 cm. long, 1-1 J^ cm. wide, broken 

 off on three sides. 



On bark of Alnus and apple. North Dakota and Oregon. 



C. Litschaueri has the aspect of C. stramineum and occurs on a 

 frequent substratum of the latter but the spores of C. Litschaueri 

 are the larger and the hyphae are thicker-walled than those of 

 C. stramineum and more like those of P. cremea. 



