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334 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
On bark. Base of John Crow Peak, altitude 5500 feet. 
Jamaica. April. 
The type of this species has so thick and spongy a hyme- 
nial layer that I have tried to regard this specimen as the 
fertile stage of S. Spongia, but the well-developed layer of 
pillars is in the way of such reference and the hyphae are 
rather coarser than in S. Spongia. 
Specimens examined: 
Jamaica: John Crow Peak, L. M. Underwood, 2439. 
9. S.atratum Patouillard, Soc. Мус. Fr. Bul. 16:181. 1900. 
Type: location unknown. 
Fructification resupinate, greatly extended, glabrous, shin- 
ing, thin, with the margin fimbriate and inerusting; subicu- 
lum black, formed of rigid, erect, short bundles composed of 
hyphae but little branched, 4-5 in diameter, with the wall 
thiek and brown under the mieroscope; hymenial erust thin, 
fragile, continuous, glabrous, ombre noir, paler at the per- 
iphery; probasidia at first globose, 10-124 in diameter, 
growing on the sides of erect hyphae of the hymenial crust 
a little below their ends; spores and spore-bearing organs 
not present. 
On living trunk of Eugenia Jambos. Morne Gommier, near 
Galion, Guadeloupe. P. Duss. E 
In connection with the original description, Patouillard 
stated that S. Spongia is **epais, roux, spongieux, lacuneux,’’ 
and that S. atratum is ‘‘tres mince, et noir." I have seen 
no specimens of S. atratwm and base the above account of 
this species wholly on the original description. 
10. S.cirratum Burt, n. sp. 
Type: in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. and Humphrey Herb. 
Fruetifieation resupinate, effused, coriaceous, spongy, dry, 
cracked, velutinous, between Benzo-brown and brownish 
drab, with fuscous subiculum, the margin divided into nar- 
row, sinuous divisions; in structure up to 7004 thick, with 
(1) next to the substratum a layer of interwoven hyphae, 
whieh form (2) a layer of pillars not uniform in diameter, 
composed of hyphae loosely interwoven, curled together, 
