[Vol. 7 

 90 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



On wood on the ground. Venezuela, British Guiana, and 

 Brazil. November. 



This South American species ranges so far to the north that it 

 may possibly occur also in the West Indies or Central America. 

 The fructifications have dimensions and general aspect of those 

 of S. caperatum but are distinguishable by darker color of pileus, 

 stem and hymenium, by velvety covering of pileus and stem, 

 and by absence of elevated longitudinal ridges on the surface of 

 the pileus. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ule, Myc. Brasil., 40, type distribution of Hymeno- 



chaete crateriformis. 

 Venezuela: Maripa, M. A. Carriker, comm. by W. G. Farlow, 

 III; Rio Mato, M. A. Carriker, comm. by W. G. Farlow, 

 IV. 

 Brazil: Spruce (in Curtis Herb.); Amazonas, Marmellos, E. 

 Ule, in Ule, Myc. Brasil, 40. 



3. S. Ravenelii Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea i: 162. 1873; 



Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 552. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 



27: 164. pi 7. f. 2. 1890; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stere- 



ums, 25. iexij. 5J^3. 1913. Plate 2, fig. 3. 



Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit.', Massee, loc. cit. 



Type: type distribution in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 4: 13. 



Fructifications gregarious, coriaceous, thin, often growing 



from a common mycelium; pileus infundibuliform, sometimes 



split on one side, even, drying cinnamon-buff 



to bay, often shining and zonate; stem slender, 



equal, minutely tomentose, drying pale olive-buff 



to pinkish buff; hymenium even, glabrous, colored 



like the stem; pileus in section 300-500 /x thick, 



composed of densely and longitudinally arranged 



hyaline hyphae 3 m in diameter; flexuous gloeo- 



cystidia 30-60 X4|-7m curve into the hymenium 



Fig. 1. but do not protrude above its surface; no cysti- 



S. Ravenelii. dia; spores hyaline, even, 3-4X2^-3 m- 



Gloeocystidia X Fructifications U-5 cm. high, 3 mm.-3 cm. 



From authentic in diameter; stem 5-10 mm. long, §-U mm. 



specimen. thick. 



