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BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 



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H. A. Lee, comm. by W. A. Setchell, 1020 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 44304). 

 Mexico: Xuchiles, near Cordoba, W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 1181, 



1213, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 54590, 54591). 

 Nicaragua: C. Wright, 21 Ij., type of Corticium aschistum and 



Peniophora Berkeleyi (in Curtis Herb.). 

 Cuba: C. G. Lloyd, 428 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55157); Alto 



Cedro, Earle & Murrill, 515 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56291); Havana, Bro. Leon, comm. 



by J. R. Weir, 10188 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56216). 

 Jamaica: Chester Vale, W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 343, comm. by 



N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 

 Brazil: Matto Grosso, Santa Anna da Chapada, G. V. Malme, 



572, comm. by L. Romell. 



65. S. magnisporum Burt, n. sp. Plate 6, fig. 65. 



Type: in Burt Herb. 



Fructifications coriaceous-gelatinous, thin, resupinate, becom- 

 ing confluent, free all around, with margin reflexed on the upper 

 side, probably white, drying pale pinkish 

 buff, hoary, the margin white, entire; hy- 

 menium even or with one or two broad 

 veins, setulose with the large cystidia, 

 drying pinkish buff ; in structure 300 fi 

 thick when dry, swelling to 1200-1500 

 fx thick when wet for sectioning, of gel- 

 atinous consistency, composed of loosely 

 interwoven, hyaline hyphae 2 /x in 

 diameter, not incrusted; hymenial layer 

 not zonate, composed of large simple 

 basidia 45-60x15 n, having 4 sterig- 

 mata 12 /x long, of hyaline, filiform, 

 fiexuous paraphyses 2-2| ^ in diameter, 

 not exceeding the basidia, and of coni- 

 cal, incrusted cystidia 45-90X12-15 m, 

 protruding up to 60 fx; spores hyaline, 

 even, 15-20X12-14/1. 



Fructifications 2-6 mm. in diameter, laterally confluent for 15 

 mm., margin reflexed for 1-2 mm. 



Fig. 37. S. magnisporum. 

 Cystidium, c, basidia, b, and 

 spores, s, X 488. From type. 



