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eter, and with the hymenial layer poorly developed and show- 
ing here and there only a few small basidia bearing attached 
spores; these spores hyaline, even, 3X14 и, probably imma- 
ture—published by Cooke as dilute fuscous, 7X5 и. 
The resupinate fructification is 7X4 em.; two reflexed fruc- 
tifications are 14 and 14 em. respectively, with the reflexed 
margin 3 mm. broad. 
On wood. Venezuela. 
The description of this extra limital species is given, be- 
cause the species may range further north into the West 
Indies, Central America or Mexico. 
Specimens examined: 
Venezuela: Fendler, 143—possibly 743, for the first digit is 
ambiguous on the label—cotype (in Curtis Herb.). 
10. M. deglubens (Berk. & Curtis) Burt, n. comb. 
Phlebia deglubens Berk. & Curtis in Cooke, Grevillea 20: 3. 
1891; Sace. Syll. Fung. 11: 113. 1895. 
Type: in Curtis Herb. and Kew Herb. 
Fructification resupinate, effused, narrowly reflexed, the re- 
flexed portion 2-3 mm. broad, drying Sayal-brown, somewhat 
zonate, radially fibrillose, slightly shining; hymenium drying 
between light seal-brown and Нау” brown, 
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reticulate-plicate, becoming irregularly porose, mr 
with the folds somewhat grown out and crested Fig. 8 
and with the shallow pores about 4 to a mm.; in > ет 
structure 400—500 џ thick, with the folds standing гета 
out 200-250 џ further, composed of densely arranged, colored, 
thick-walled hyphae 31-4 д in diameter, not incrusted, not 
nodose-septate, running parallel with the substratum, curving 
into Ше hymenium, and giving their color to the fructification ; 
no cystidia; spores hyaline, even, 34X2 y. 
Fructification 14 em. broad, extending 2 em. along under 
side of a limb and broken off at both ends. 
On frondose limbs. Venezuela. 
The deseription of this extra limital species is given because 
it may be expected to range further north into the West 
Indies, Central America, and Mexico, and would be sought 
