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 110 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 510, type (in Curtis Herb.); El Yunque, 



Baracoa, L. M. Underwood & F. S. Earle, 1087, 11 41, 



comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., 1141 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 56588). 

 Porto Rico: Rio Piedras, J. R. Johnston, 89 (in N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56284). 



20. S. glabrescens Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 

 10 : 330. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 558. 1888; Massee, Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 169. 1890; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. 

 Stereums, 37. textf. 558. 1913. Plate 3, fig. 18: 



Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications scattered, sometimes two from a common 

 mycelial pad, stipitate; pileus flabelliform, zonate, minutely 

 velvety, sometimes nearly glabrous, drying Verona-brown to 

 chestnut, the margin paler, tapering behind into a short stem; 

 stem lateral, nearly equal, velvety; hymenium even, concave, 

 drying pinkish buff; no cystidia nor gloeocystidia; spores 

 hyaline, even, 4-5X3-4 m- 



Pileus 5-20 mm. long, 5-20 mm. broad; stem 2-10 mm. long, 

 ^-1| mm. thick. 



On fallen twigs and mossy rotten wood. West Indies. May 

 to September. 



S. glabrescens has small, rather scattered fructifications, with 

 firm, coriaceous, minutely velvety pileus and stem, small sub- 

 globose spores, and no cystidia, and it occurs on wood. Some 

 collections are nearly glabrous. A mycelial pad is usually 

 present at base of stem. 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 520, type (in Curtis Herb.); Pinar del Rio, 

 J. A. Shafer, 13906 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and Mo. 

 Bot. Gard. Herb., 56298). 

 Porto Rico: Ponce, F. S. Earle, 163, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. 



Herb. 

 Jamaica: Hollymount, L. M. Underwood, 3427 (in N. Y. Bot. 



Gard. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56299). 

 Dominica: Landat, F. E. Lloyd, 380, comm. by N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb. 



