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338 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
On bark of living limbs of frondose species. Mexico, West 
Indies, and Venezuela. February, March, November; spore- 
bearing in November. 
This species is highly distinguished by honey-yellow color 
and the division of its fructification into narrow, sinuous, 
branched divisions, resembling those of the thallus of the 
lichens, Physcia stellaris and P. obscura. Spore-bear- 
ing organs are not abundant in the only fertile specimen 
which I have seen. They appear to become somewhat cork- 
screw-shaped, with no indication of bearing spores except on 
the terminal cell, but I was not certain on this point because 
the occasional attached spores were along the edge of thick 
sections where only the apex of the organ extended beyond 
the paraphyses. In two cases probasidia were bearing at 
the apex, each a body of the form and dimensions of a spore 
of this species. In the deeper portions of the fructifications 
brown, pyriform bodies of the same size and form as the 
probasidia are borne by the hyphae in the same location 
as the probasidia. These brown organs are often of the same 
dimensions as the spore-bearing organs, septate, and gorged 
with brown contents. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiceati: Smith, Cent. Am. Fungi, 100, under the name 
Thelephora retiformas. 
Mexico: Sanborn, Oaxaca, C. R. Orcutt, 3334 (in Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Herb.). 
Nicaragua: Castillo Viejo, C. L. Smith, in Smith, Cent. Am. 
Fungi, 100. 
Cuba: C. Wright, 244, cotype (in Curtis Herb.). 
Grenada: Grand tang, R. Thaxter, comm. by W. С. Far- 
low, 11. 
Venezuela: Fendler, 279 (in Farlow Herb. and in Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Herb., 20411). 
13. S. retiforme (Berk. & Curtis) Patouillard, Soc. Mye. 
Fr. Bul. 16: 55. 1900. 
Thelephora retiformis Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 
10:330. 1868; Sace. Syll. Fung. 6:544. 1888. 
