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BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 115 



The above is the original description of S. petalodes, a species 

 of which I have seen no specimen. Lloyd's figure of the type 

 shows the fructification to be a rosette-shaped mass 4 cm. high 

 and 6 mm. in diameter, composed of many elongated pileate 

 flaps, each of which is flattened and up to 7 mm. broad. No 

 record was published by Berkeley as to whether S. petalodes 

 grows on ground or on wood. 



27. S. anastomosans (Berk. & Curtis) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 



4. Stip. Stereums, 35. 1913. 



Thelephora anastomosans Berkeley & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 Jour. 10: 329. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:534. 1888. 



Type: in Curtis Herb, and Kew Herb. 



Fructification stipitate, white, with the pileus divided into 

 many segments; pileate branches and branchlets more or less 

 laterally grown together above, somewhat flabel- 

 liform and fimbriate, below more or less distinct 

 or confluent into the common stem; hymenium (^ 



even, inferior; no cystidia nor gloeocystidia; Q 



spores copious, hyaline, even, subglobose, 4-4|X 

 3^-4 M. ^'^- ^- 



T-i.-r-i- ij_r»i i*T- S. anastomosans. 



Fructifications about 2| cm. high. Spores x 665 



On stump. Cuba. October. From type. 



It was noted by the authors of the species that 



5. anastomosans is allied to S. craspedium, but the divisions of 

 its pileus are narrower than I understand them to be in the lat- 

 ter. S. anastomosans is somewhat suggestive of S. Hartmanni 

 and S. proliferum but differs in having many pileate divisions 

 grow out from a common trunk so as to form a rosette-like 

 mass, as in doubled forms of Thelephora caryophyllea. 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 280, type (in Curtis Herb.). 



28. S. proliferum (Berk.) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stere- 

 ums, 34. text /. 55J^. 1913. Plate 4, fig. 24. 



Thelephora prolifera Berkeley, Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8:272. 

 1856; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 542. 1888. 

 Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 

 Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



