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84 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
6. Pileus drying brigh “dies to P gom fading in the herbarium, of — 
texture; in West Para QUAY... eee ee eee ee ne 9. S. aurantiacum 
Cu n Wikconein A A ies S. tenerrimum 
7. Somewhat alle oee erro — not wn a Pies of "sna 
processes near base of the pM. 11-4 c igh, 8 mm.-3 cm 
diameter; in Ohio and North Carolina E Mex we Wet idis 
CUNEO CUSCO ergamenum 
mm. across; on dead Vitis in South Carolina. ....... . cristatum 
8. Hair-like Kiew more or less numerous bul ha gooey; sa 
e-buff, str eon mt on the ground, rmont to 
orth Caroli ina ue ih HUNG. MS . S. pallidum 
8. Gloeocystidia barely distinguishable, but no cystidia; pileus plicate on 
both surfaces, with the upper diamine-brown and the hymenium 
white; on the ground, Porto Rico to British Quien na...16. S. elegans 
8. Gloeocystidia present but no ior ; pileus drying pale eap | 
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n dead wood, Jamaica to Trinidad................. decolorans 
$. LATERAL STEMMED SPECIES 
9. Fructifications not cespitose. ...... cesse pepe 10 
9. Fructifications m A i REPA a pectinate along their maga: 
on decaying wood, Carolina to Bolivia.................. 24. S. Hartmanni 
e 
Bett eg cn pica pi inal usu anliy y gregarious; margin of pileus iret 
ntire; spores 6X5u, becoming subangular; in Jamaica p Dut 
COST QUSE LUIS SCIO POT TTE PUPPES EN 8.8. radio 
10. Growing on ground; pileus white when fresh, drying smoke -gray, 
not zonate; spores 4-53 X 3-5u; in West Indies 9. S. pusiolum 
10. Growing on dead wood; pileus of soft bibulous texture, ying okish 
buff, 3-6 mm. wide, 5-7 mm. ong; in Cuba and Port y qu RT 
10. Growing on dead wood; pileus not of soft bibulous textu ue A 
11. Pileus drying beg to chestnut, minutely velvety; stem velvet 
spores 4-5X3-4u; in the West Indies............. eese 20. S. PP AREE 
11. Pileus whitish when ving; livid and nA PA upon drying, ea cm. high, 
m 3-1 cm. long; in Guadeloupe.................. 1. S. flabellatum 
11. Pileus white when fresh, drying “reddis h rog ie 8-15 mm. Bim 315 mm. 
broad, often deeply split into segments; in Brazil.......... . S. fissum 
$III. MERISMATOID SPECIES 
12. — Proy: and concrescent throughout into a cluster 7 cm. in 
dia with color and m t of Tremellodendron pallidum; in 
A oves oy sd 25. S. craspedium 
12. pi eme nr a — seth canes mass of reddish — sinite 
aps; NE. SLE V. Louer rrt S. petalodes 
12. Fructification stipitate, white, with many pileate PA rad extendin g 
mon stem; with aspect of doubled forms of T'hele- 
phora c dus but white; 231 AM Pas . anastomosans 
12. eee cespitose, somewhat creeping b s of branches 
ing attached to the matrix by dis] ; pl fie branches 1-13 
ong, 1-2 mm. broad; in Brazil............... . S. proliferum 
$IV. EFFUSO-REFLEXED SPECIES 
13. p cere flexuous qM conspicuous in the subhymenium and 
ymen 
Cee eC eee EVA AAA CA AA AAA AAA AA AA 
13. Pyriform 
13. Colored « conducting g organs in in cone subhjmeniumy, o or r hymenium; cystidia 
hen wounde in etative condition. 
. hirsutum aad y rameale sometimes have nl colored conducting 
organsin the RENNES Lo CLER A s RECO 
