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BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 89 



Havana Province, P. Wilson, 1172, comm. by F. S. Earle; 



Herradura, Earle & Murrill, 180, comm. by N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb. 

 Porto Rico: Manati, Johnston & Stevenson, 2006 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 3396). 

 San Domingo: 259 (in Kew Herb.). 

 Jamaica: Cinchona, L. M. Underwood, 3172 (in N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb, and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56271) ; Cockpit 



Country, E. G. Britton & D. W. Marble, 338 (in N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb.). 

 St. Kitts: Lambert Estate, N. L. Britton & J. F. Cowell, 672 



(inN.Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 

 Brazil: Bahia, Blanchet, 19 (in Kew Herb.). 

 Bolivia : Yungas, A.Miguel Bang, 295 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



2. S. hydrophorum Berkeley, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. I. 14: 

 327. pi. 9. f. 2. 1844; Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8: 273. pi. 6. 

 1856; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 555. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 Jour. 27: 159. 1890; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stereums, 

 29. text f. 547, 548. 1913. Plate 2, fig. 2. 



Hymenochaete crateriformis P. Hennings, Hedwigia 43 : 172. 

 1904; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 166. 1905. 



Illustrations: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. L 14: pi. 9. f. 2; 

 Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8: pi. 6; Lloyd, loc. cit. 



Type: in Kew Herb. 



Pileus stipitate, coriaceous, infundibuliform, drying Front's 

 brown, obscurely zonate, velvety, sometimes bearing large, 

 branched hairs at the center and bottom of the cups, the margin 

 entire; stem central, cylindric, solid, velvety, colored like the 

 pileus, enlarged at the base and attached by disk; hymenium 

 even, drying snuff-brown, not setulose; in structure 600 m thick, 

 composed of intermixed and interwoven hyaline and slightly 

 colored hyphae, the latter of which give their color to the 

 pileus and hymenium and curve into the hymenium as cylindric, 

 obtuse, slightly colored paraphyses 3 ^u in diameter, not emergent 

 above its surface; no cystidia, gloeocystidia, nor setae; spores 

 hyaline, globose, even, 3 a« in diameter. 



Pileus 4-10 cm. in diameter, 3-6 cm. deep; stem 3-5 cm. long, 

 4-5 mm. thick. 



