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642 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
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species is unknown but we suspect that it will be found in the
Australian or western American flora as it seems more nearly
related to the species of these regions than to any European
species.
ExsIccATI: Klotzsch, Herb. Viv. Myc. ed. 1, [Rabenhorst] 242, 1967.
SWEDEN: Upsala, Bot. Trddgard, Gunnar Fries, 1893, Th. C. E. Fries, 1905,
T. Lyenberg, 25 XI, 1905 (all Upsala).
ITALY: Mattirolo, 10 (Lloyd Mus.).
GERMANY: Berlin, P. Hennings, Dec. 9, 1894 (Upsala), 1895, Apr., 1904 (Lloyd
Mus. 04146); Giessen, A. Braun, 1853 (Berlin), H. Hofmann, 1853, in Klotzsch,
Herb. Viv. Myc. ed. 1, [Rabenhorst] 1967 (Farlow); Breslau, L. Becker, Feb., 1873,
ex Herb. Thuimen (N. Y. Bot. Gard. and Lloyd Mus. 0212).
GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland, Glasgow, J. D. Hooker, type (Kew, Berlin, and Paris).
MASSACHUSETTS: Cambridge, B. Thaxter, 1891, 1892 (Farlow).
CALIFORNIA: Alameda County, Berkeley, Botanic Garden, G. Hahn (com. N. L.
Gardner 481, Univ. Cal. and Zeller).
7. RIYMENOGASTER VIsCIDus Massee & Rodway, Kew Bull.
Misc. Inf. 1898: 127. 1898.>
Illustrations: Rodway, Papers & Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania
1911: pl. 3, f. 8.
Type: in Kew Herb.
Fructifications irregular, oblong, chestnut to chocolate, vis-
cid, 3 x 1.5 cm.; peridium thick, tough, easily separable from
the gleba, with outer gelified layer of periclinal hyphae 30- 40 IA
thick, inner layer 90-130 , thick, of dark reddish-brown hyphae;
gleba pale at first, dark brown in age, cavities radiating from
the base, small, irregular; septa thick, brown, not scissile;
basidia 3-4-spored; spores broadly oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse at
both ends, 13-15.5 x 9-10.5 a, minutely roughened, yellowish-
brown to dirty brown in mass.
Oregon and Tasmania. (Under Corylus, Oregon. June.)
OREGON: Benton County, Noon, J. L. Mielke (Zeller 7631).
TASMANIA: Hobart, L. Bodway 270, type (Kew), 1115 (Lloyd), 1272a (Dodge
and Zeller).
8. HYMENOGASTER
TENER Berkeley & Broome, Ann. & Mag.
Nat. Hist. I. 13: 349. 1844; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. I. 18: 75.
1846; Tulasne, Fung. Hypog. 72. 1851; Berkeley, Outlines Brit.
Fungol. 296. 1860; DeToni in Saco. Syll. Fung. 7: 174. 1888;