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224 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
fuscous, simple and tapering upward or soon branching and 
terminating in paler either subulate tips or somewhat flattened 
ends; spores fuscous, subglobose, echinulate, 8-10 x 8-9. 
The resupinate membrane may be 3 cm. in diameter; ascending 
portion of fructification 2-3 em. high, 15-2 mm. thick. 
On decaying leaves and sticks оп the ground. Cuba. 
Berkeley & Curtis based their description of Thelephora den- 
tosa on two collections made in Cuba by C. Wright in different 
years; these collections are different specifically. Тһе original 
description applies chiefly to the earlier collection, made in 
1857, which is unnumbered. I take my type of T. perplexa 
from the later collection, C. Wright, 238. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiecati: Fungi Cubenses Wrightiani, C. Wright, 238, under 
the name T'helephora dentosa B. & C. 
Cuba: C. Wright, 288, type (in Curtis Herb.). 
22. T. dentosa Berk. & Curtis emend Burt.! 
T. dentosa B. & C. (Fungi Cubenses) Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
10: 329. 1807. 
Type: type and cotype in Kew Herb. and Curtis Herb. re- 
spectively. 
Fructification coriaceous-soft, incrusting leaves and small 
twigs on the ground and ascending as free, sessile, dilated, tri- 
angular, flabelliform pilei which are dentate at the upper end 
or deeply divided into а few finger-shaped divisions, honey- 
yellow to tawny olivaceous throughout, minutely hairy under 
a lens; spores honey-yellow, globose to ovoid, weakly echinulate, 
6-10 x 6-84. 
Pileus 1 em. high, 5 mm.-1 em. broad. 
On rotten vegetation. Cuba. June. 
As already stated in connection with T. perplexa, Berkeley 
& Curtis cited for types of their T'. dentosa specimens from two 
collections made in Cuba by C. Wright. "These collections were 
made with an interval of several years between the collections, 
which differ specifically. Ав noted by Berkeley & Curtis, their 
description applies better to the earlier collection, to which I now 
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