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3. Panellus cantharelloides Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 1: 120. 1854. 
Pileus soft-coriaceous, thin, flabelliform, more or less umbilicate, 2 cm. broad; surface 
white or yellowish, glabrous, lobed and faintly striate on the margin: lamellae short-decurrent, 
densely crowded, dichotomous, very narrow, the edges entire and quite obtuse: stipe eccentric 
to nearly lateral, glabrous, concolorous, woody, 3-4 cm. long, 2 cm. thick. 
TYPE LocaLity: French Guiana. 
Hasirat: On fallen dead wood. 
DIstRIBUTION: Cuba, Guadeloupe, and Martinique; also in Guiana. 
4. Panellus subcantharelloides Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus flabelliform to subcircular, thin, fleshy-tough, umbilicate to somewhat infundibuli- 
form, solitary to gregarious, 3-4 cm. broad; surface white, glabrous, pruinose at the center, 
margin entire, concolorous, usually inflexed on drying: lamellae decurrent, several times 
inserted, not dichotomous, very narrow and very crowded, thin, white: spores ovoid, smooth, 
hyaline, 5X3 u: stipe short, tapering upward, white, tomentose, woody, about I cm. long and 
2-3 mm. thick. 
Type collected on an old root at the base of El Yunque Mountain, Cuba, March, 1903, L. M. 
Underwood & F. S. Earle 1320 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
5. Panellus flabellatus Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus sessile or with a very short lateral stipe, flabelliform, usually convex and more or 
less irregular, very thin, imbricate-cespitose, 3-6 cm. Jong and 6-10 cm. broad; surface glabrous, 
smooth, white to cremeous or ochraceous, margin concolorous, irregular or lobed: context thin, 
fleshy-tough, with rather pleasant taste and odor: lamellae extremely crowded and narrow, 
inserted but not forked, white to ochraceous, the edges entire: spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 
53-4 uw: stipe a mere lateral tubercle, at times reaching 1 cm. in length, white, glabrous or 
slightly pruinose, marked with the decurrent lamellae. 
‘Type collected on a fallen log in dense woods near Jalapa, Mexico, December 12-20, 1909, W. A. 
& Edna L. Murrill 201 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DisTRIBUTION: Vera Cruz; also in Venezuela. 
6. Panellus eugrammus (Mont.) Murrill. 
Agaricus (Pleurotus) eugrammus Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. IT. 8: 366. 1837, 
Lentinus eugrammus Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba 414. 1842. 
Agaricus lobulatus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 116. 1846. 
Panus eugrammus Fries, Nova Acta Soc. Sci. Upsal. III. 1:40. 1851. 
Panus Wrightit Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 299. 1868. 
Panus applanatus Massee, Jour. Bot. 30: 196. 1892. 
Phyllotus imbricatus Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 233. 1906. 
Phyllotus hygrophanus Harle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 233. 1906. 
Geopetalum album Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 234. 1906. 
Pileus sessile, coriaceous-membranous, tough, dimidiate, reniform, 2-6 cm. broad; surface 
subtomentose, often smooth, pallid to reddish-cervinous, thinly and radiately lined, margin 
expanded, at length flabelliform-ovate, radiate-sulcate when moist, lobed: lamellae simple, 
dimidiate, decurrent, broad, rather distant, concolorous, becoming reddish: spores ellipsoid, 
6X3 uw: stipe short or obsolete, white. 
TyPE LocaLIty: Cuba. 
Hapirat: Various forms of dead wood. 
DIstRIBUTION: Throughout tropical America at low elevations. 
InLustRations: Inf. An, Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: pl. 30, 34; Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba 91. 17, f. 2. 
7. Panellus dealbatus (Berk.) Murrill. 
Panus dealbaius Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 6:317. 1847. 
Pileus soft-coriaceous, flabelliform, sometimes lobed, 2 cm. broad; surface umbrinous when 
fresh, white with dark border on drying, minutely cracked as if whitewashed, margin striate: 
lamellae not interveined, distinct, decurrent, narrow, umbrinous to blackish, sometimes with 
