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niliform paraphyses. The collections from Porto Rico and 
Grenada are probably rather immature, for many of their 
spores are even. 
Specimens examined: 
Jamaica: Cinchona, F. S. Earle, 401, N. Y. Bot. Gard., Plants 
of Jamaiea, type. 
Porto Rico: Vieques Island, Campo Cieto to Ensenada 
Hondo, J. A. Shafer, 3048 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and 
in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55453). 
Grenada: Grand Etang, В. Thaxter, comm. by W. G. Far- 
low, 6. 
9. A.candidus (Schw.) Burt, n. comb. 
Thelephora candida Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leipzig 
Schrift. 1:110. 1822; Fries, Elenchus Fung. 1: 189. 1828.— 
Thelephora candidissima Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. 
N. S. 4:167. 1832.—Stereum candidum (Schw.) Fries, Epier. 
002. 1838; Saec. Syll. Fung. 6: 585. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. 
Bot. Jour. 27 : 200. 1890. 
Type: in Herb. Sehweinitz, Herb. Fries, and Curtis Herb. 
Fruetifieations scattered, re- 
supinate, adnate, at first convex 
and orbicular, soon expanded, 
flattened, following the inequal- 
ities of the bark, white, pruinose, 
the margin thick, entire, blacken- 
ing underneath; in structure 800 
p thick, somewhat stratose, com- 
7 posed of densely arranged, sub- 
NS erect, interwoven, heavily in- 
andid us. erusted, hyaline hyphae 2-3 y in 
беленү pares. aœ diameter under the inerustation, 
ме 29 HCl; spores of type, в. of which much of the matter is 
large, angular, erystalline grains; 
hymenium composed of clavate basidia 45-60X 10-15 и, and 
of thin-walled, hyaline, flexuous, inerusted, hyphal paraphyses 
with tips bushy, somewhat corymbosely branched, branches 
2-8 шіп diameter under their inerustation, not moniliform 
and noteworthy, as are the hyphae, by the large amount of 
