1920] 
BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 107 
“1. Thelephora elegans. nob. 
"T. subcaespitosa infundibuliformis carnoso-coriacea plicata 
utrinque glabra, superne dilute fusco-fasciata, inferne albescenti- 
carnea pruinosa. 
“Ad terram argillosam. 
“Viget Junio. 
“ Adumbr. Pulchra species. Gregarie crescens, subcarnosa, 
tenuis, glabra. Pileus substipitatus, 1-2 uncialis, infundibuli- 
formis, subcompressus, undulato-plicatus, margine irregulariter 
crenatus, interne rufescens, et fasciis dilute fuscis eleganter vari- 
egatus, nitens, externe albescenti-carneus, opacus, pruinosus.” 
Specimens examined: 
Porto Rico: Mayaguez, B. Lopez Santiago, 17 (in N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56265). 
17. S. decolorans (Berk. € Curtis) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. 
Stip. Stereums, 36. 1913. Plate 3, fig. 234. 
Thelephora decolorans Berkeley € Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 
10: 328. 1868; Sace. Syll. Fung. 6: 530. 1888.—Podoscypha 
decolorans (Berk. € Curtis) Patouillard in Duss, Fl. Crypt. 
Antilles Fr. 231. 1904. 
Type: in Kew Herb. and Curtis Herb. 
Fructifications coriaceous, gregarious or somewhat cespitose, 
stipitate; pileus split on one side quite, or nearly, to the stem, 
usually wedge-shaped to broadly flabelliform, sometimes radially 
lineate, drying cinnamon; stem cylindric, colored like the 
pileus, tomentose, attached by a mycelium common to several 
fructifications; hymenium colored like the pileus and stem, 
sometimes lineate; pileus in section 200-400 » thick, composed 
of densely and longitudinally arranged hyaline hyphae 3-33 u 
in diameter; no cystidia; gloeocystidia flexuous, 45-90 X3-6 n, 
between the basidia or curving into the hymenium; spores 
hyaline, even, subglobose, 4-43 X3-4 u. 
Fructifications 1-3 cm. long, 5-13 mm. broad; stem 2-10 
mm. long, 3-1 mm. thick. 
On dead wood. Jamaica to Trinidad. May to January. 
S. decolorans is stated in the original description to have been 
white, drying ochraceous; I have seen only dried specimens 
which are pale cinnamon throughout. The occurrence of the 
