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On the ground, rarely on wood humus. South Carolina to 
Mexico, West Indies, and Brazil. July to April. 
S. Ravenelii is near S. pergamenum in microscopic characters 
but is constantly infundibuliform, with slender, more conspic- 
uous stem, and occurs on the ground except very rarely, and 
is gregarious rather than cespitose. The range of S. Ravenelii 
southward to Brazil is so much greater than has been noted 
heretofore that it would be well to compare with it authentic 
specimens of some of the imperfectly described South American 
species of central-stemmed Stereums 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiecati: Ravenel, Fungi Car. 4: 13. 
South Carolina: H. W. Ravenel, in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 4: 13, 
type distribution. 
Alabama: Beaumont, 207 in part (the small specimens on right 
of the card in Curtis Herb., 4629); Montgomery, R. P. 
Burke, 26, 181 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 10305, 57059). 
Louisiana: Baton Rouge, C. W. Edgerton, 1544, and C. J. 
Humphrey & C. W. Edgerton, comm. by C. J. Humphrey, 
2523, 2522 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 42921 and 42939 
respectively); St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, 1847. 
Mexico: San Luis Potosi, C. G. Pringle (in Farlow Herb.). 
Cuba: C. Wright, 255 (under the name Stereum elegans in Curtis 
Herb.); Candelaria, Earle & Wilson, 205, 207; Herradura, 
N. L. Britton, E.G. Britton, F. S. Earle € C. S. Gager, 6397 
(n N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 
56303). 
Trinidad: Carrengo, Carriker (in Farlow Herb., 1). 
Brazil: Blumenau, A. Móller, the Stereum elegans of Hedwigia 
35: 288. 1896, comm. by G. Bresadola. 
4. S. surinamense Léveillé, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 2: 209. 
1844; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 556. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. 
Jour.27:161. 1890; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stereums, 26. 
text f. 544. 1913. Plate 2, fig. 4. 
Stereum fulvo-nitens Berkeley, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hiat. II. 
o: 198. 1852; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:556. 1888; Massee, Linn. 
Soc. Bot. Jour. 27:162. 1890. 
Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 
Type: in Museum of Paris Herb. presumably. 
