1916] 
BURT—TH CEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. VII 3359 
Specimens examined: 
Florida: Daytona, R. Thaxter, 75b (in Farlow Herb. and 
Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 45895). 
Alabama: Auburn, F. S. Earle Ф С. Е. Baker, also (in Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb., 5165). 
Louisiana: St. Martinville, 4. В. Langlois, 3005, determined 
by Patouillard as S. (very near) Leprieurti; Gibson, Е. T. 
McLean, comm. by P. Spaulding, type—some fragments 
near a specimen of another species, but having probasidia, 
etc., as drawn, taken as the type because more mature 
than other collections cited. 
8. S. jamaicaense Durt, n. sp. 
Type: in Burt Herb. and N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Fruetifieation resupinate, effused, coriaceous, spongy, dry, 
thiek, bister, with the subieulum bone-brown; in structure 
with (1) next to the substratum a 
thin layer of interwoven hyphae A 
which form (2) a layer of probably 
oblique, weak, very slender, 
crowded, hyphal pillars 12-20» in 2 
diameter, up to 20004 long, with hy- 
phae even, 4-би in diameter, buffy 
brown under the microscope, di- a % 
verging above to form (3) a spongy 
hymenial layer 300-400и thick, with 
hyphae which rise obliquely, are Fig. 6 
4 S. jamaieaense. 
loosely interwoven, and bear proba- һ, hyphal end bearing two 
sidia laterally at the outer surface  probasidia in the surface of the 
" 2 enium; а, probasidium; b, 
of the layer and terminate in hya-  sporebearing organ; s, spore. 
line or subhyaline, curved branches х8 
or tips; probasidia hyaline, subglobose or pyriform, 13-25 X 
10-134, quickly developing into hyaline, straight, few-celled, 
spore-bearing organs up to 60 X 11и; spores simple, hyaline, 
slightly curved, 13 X 51%и. 
Fructification larger than 6 cm. long, 2 em. broad, 1-114 
mm. thiek—fraetured on all sides and not showing natural 
margin. 
