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BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 175 



N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 23108, 

 3732, 54475), and C. L. Smith, in Smith, Central Am. Fungi, 

 96, 97; Orizaba, W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 799, comm. by 

 N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 54624) ; 

 Trap, de la Conception, Liehman, authentic specimen of 

 Stereum complicatum (in Herb. Fries). 



Porto Rico: Indiera Fria, N. L. Britton, J. F. Cowell & S. 

 Brown, 4483 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb., 56623). 



Jamaica: Abbey Green, W. Harris, 1022; Cinchona, F. S. 

 Earle, 860, and W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 600, both numbers 

 comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; Hope, F. S. Earle, 119, 

 comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; New Haven Gap, W. A. 

 & E. L. Murrill, 770, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; 

 Monkey Hill, W. A. Murrill, 790, 802, comm. by N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb.; Rose Hill, F. S. Earle, 309, 312, comm. by 

 N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



48. S. sericeum Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leipzig Schrift. 

 i: 106. 1822 (in B. Sterea of Thelephora); Morgan, Cincinnati 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 10: 195. 1888; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 579. 

 1888. Plate 5, fig. 49. 



Thelephora striata Fries, Elenchus Fung, i : 178. 1828; 

 Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4: 167. 1832.— .S^er- 

 eum striatum Fries, Epicr. 548. 1838, but not of p. 551 nor of 

 Hym. Eur. 641. 1874. 



Illustrations: Hard, Mushrooms, 456. text f. 383. 



Type: not found by me in Herb. Schweinitz although studied 

 by Berkeley & Curtis, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Jour. 3 : 220. 1856. 



Fructifications coriaceous, small, very thin and papery, ef- 

 fuso-reflexed, laterally confluent, with reflexed portion divided 

 into small pilei, sometimes orbicular and attached by a central 

 point with margin free all around, the upper side 

 whitish to cartridge-buff, shining, silky, with ^ 



minute radiate fibrils, the margin entire, thinning Cj C^ 

 to subfimbriate, not complicate; hymenium even, ^^ 



wood-brown when most deeply colored, becoming 

 bleached ; in structure 250-300 y. thick, composed ^ l^ceum. 

 of densely and longitudinally arranged hyaline Spores x 665. 



