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Annals 



of the 



Missouri Botanical Garden 



Vol. 7 APRIL-SEPTEMBER, 1920 No. 2-3 



THE THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII^ 



Stereum 



EDWARD ANGUS BURT 



Mycologist and Librarian to the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 Professor in the Henry Shaw School of Botany of 

 Washington University 



STEREUM 



Stereum Persoon, Roemer Neues Mag. Bot. i:110. 1794 

 Obs. Myc. i:35. 1797, and 2:90. 1799; Fries, Obs. Myc 

 I : 274. 1815, Gen. Hym. 14. 1836, Epicr. 545. 1838 

 Hym. Eur. 638. 1874; Berkeley, Brit. Fung. 270. 1860 

 Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. lo: 193. 1888 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:551. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour 

 27:158. 1890; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. (i : 1**) 

 123. 1898. — B. Sterea of Thelephora, Schweinitz, Naturforsch. 

 Ges. Leipzig Schrift. 1 : 105. 1S22.—''*** Stereum of Thele- 

 phora, Persoon, Myc. Eur. 1 : 116. 1822. — Includes Podoscypha 

 Patouillard in Duss, Fl. Crypt. Antilles Fr. 230. 1904.— 

 Includes Lloydella Bresadola in Lloyd, Myc. Writ, i . Myc. 

 Notes 6:51. 1901; Sacc. Syll. Fung. i6:1116. 1902.— 

 Includes BresadoUna Brinkmann, Ann. Myc. 7: 289. 1909. 



Fructifications coriaceous to hard, stipitate, dimidiate or 

 effuso-reflexed; hymenium inferior, not containing setae; inter- 

 mediate layer of longitudinally arranged hyphae normally 

 present; basidia simple; spores white, even — rough in but few 

 instances. 



The species mentioned or described as belonging in Stereum 



' Issued Dec. 8, 1920. 

 Ann. Mo. Bot. Card., Vol. 7, 1920 (81) 



