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and therefore not mandatory. Fracidia, as shown above, was never 
raised to generic rank, and if it were to be it should be used for the 
species of Xylaria which Fries first referred to it. KARSTEN might 
have used Saccarpo’s subgenus Podocrea in 1892, but since he 
founded the new genus Podostroma five years before LINDAU raised 
Podocrea to generic rank, Podostroma should stand. Furthermore 
it is very doubtful if any of the three species first placed by SAccARDO 
in his subgenus Podocrea are generically the same as Hypocrea 
alutacea, although SaccaRrDo‘’ suggests that Podostroma Karsten 
appears to be very like his section Podocrea. 
Inthe light of this study, then, the name to be applied to H ypocrea 
alutacea (Pers.) Tul. with its principal re would be as follows: 
Podostroma alutaceum (Pers.) Atkinson. 
Clavaria simplex p. p. Schmiedel. Icon. et Analyt. 18-26. =" 4, fig. 2; 
‘pl. 5, figs. 1-3. 1762, according to Tulasne. 
Sphaeria alutacea Pers. Obsery. Myc. 2:66. no. 99. pl. 1, fig. 2, a 4, ¢ 
1797. Comm. de fung. Clavif. 12. 1797. 
Sphaeria clavata Sowerby. Eng. Fung. 2: pl. 159. 1799. 
Sphaeria alutacea Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. Lusat. Sup. 1. 1805 
Sphaeria alutacea 8 Sphaeria albicans Pers. Syn. Method. Fung. 2. 1801. 
Sphaeria alutacea Fr. and 8 turgida Fr. Syst. Myc. 2:325. 1823. 
Cordyceps alutacea Link. Handb. z. Erkenn. der Gewiichse 3:347- N0- 
1833 
Cordiceps alutacea Fr. Summa Veg. Scand. 381. 1849. 
Cordyceps alutacea Berk. Outlines Brit. Fung. 382. pl. 23, fig. 6. 1860. 
Cordyceps alutacea Quélet. Champ. Jura et d. Vosges 487. 1869. 
Hypocrea alutacea Tul. Selecta Fung. Carp. 1:62. 1861, and 3:35: pl. 4, 
(figs. 1-6. 1865. 
Hypocrea alutacea Peck. Rept. N. Y. State Mus. 26:84. 1894. 
H A siete alutacea Cornu. Bull. Soc. Bot. de ie 26: 33-35- 1879. 
Hypocrea alutacea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2:530. 18 
HE ypocrea alutacea Winter, Rabenhorst’s Kop F lora Deutschland, etc, 
Pilze.1?:142. 1887. 
? Podostroma leucopus Karsten. Hedwieks 31:294. 18 alfte 
Hypocrea alutacea Schroeter. Krypt. Flora Schles., Pilz, Zweite Ha 
3:272. 1894. 
Podocrea alutacea Lindau. Engler und Prantl’s Pflanzenf. 11: 364- 189 
vel i eas Lloydii Bresadola. Lloyd’s Mycolog. Notes 9 (176): 87. f8- 9 is 
See Unrviesizy. ITHACA, N. y. 
47 Syll. Fung. 113355. 1895. 
