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ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Cuba : C. Wright (in Curtis Herb.) ; Alto Cedro, Earle & Mur- 

 rill, 495; Herradura, Earle d Murrill, 156. 



Porto Rico: Bayamon, J. A. Stevenson, 6758 (in Mo. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., 55058). 



Trinidad: Verdant Vale, R. Thaxter, conun. by W. G. Far- 

 low, 23. 



Mexico: probably portion of type (from E. Fries in Kew 

 Herb.) ; Orizaba, W. A. S Edna L. Murrill, 776 (in N. Y. 

 Bot. Gard. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 54608). 



Nicaragua: C. Wright, U. S. Northern Pacific Expl. Exp., 

 under the name Corticium sulphureum (in Curtis Herb.). 



7. A. seriatus (Berk. & Curtis) Burt, n. comb. 



Stereum seriatum Berk. & 

 Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 10 : 

 332. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 

 581. 1888. 



Type : in Kew Herb, and Curtis 

 Herb. 



Fructifications scattered, re- 

 supinate, adnate, orbicular or 

 oblong, sometimes confluent, con- 

 vex, w^hite, pruinose, becoming 

 between pinkish buff and deep 

 olive-butf when old, the margin 

 adnate, neither free nor elevated ; 

 in structure 600 ix thick, some- 

 what stratose, composed of sub- 

 erect hyphae heavily incrusted 

 with fine granules and bearing 

 such granules laterally in adher- 

 ing masses ; hymenium composed 

 of basidia and granule-incrusted 

 hyphal filaments, or paraphyses, which are filiform, thin- 

 walled, flexuous or spirally twisted, 2 /n in diameter under 

 the incrustation; basidia 40-50x12 /z, with 4 sterigmata, each 

 about 9X3 ix; spores hyaline, even, 11-18x9^-13 m; globose 

 organs of proteid reaction, 6-15 n in diameter, with shriveled 



Fig. 7 

 A. seriatus. 



Flexuous and spirally twisted 

 paraphyses, g, after removal of the 

 granular matter by HCl; basidium, 

 b; spores, s; proteid bodies, pr. 

 X870. 



