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108 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
fan-shaped fructifications in clusters on dead wood, pale cinna- 
mon color when dry, presence of gloeocystidia, and small sub- 
globose spores constitute a group of characters by which dried 
specimens of S. decolorans may be distinguished from other 
species in our region. 
Specimens examined: 
Jamaiea: W. A. Murrill, 1181 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
Cuba: C. Wright 234, 248, type (in Kew Herb. and Curtis 
Herb.); Santiago de las Vegas, Van Herman, comm. by 
F. S. Earle, 257. 
Trinidad: Carengo, M. A. Carriker, comm. by W. G. Farlow, 1. 
18. S. radicans (Berk.) Burt, n. comb. Plate 3, fig. 16. 
Thelephora radicans Berkeley, Hooker's London Jour. Bot. 
3: 190. 1844; Berkeley & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. ro: 
329. 1868; Saec. Syll. Fung. 6: 525. 1888.— Podoscypha radi- 
cans (Berk. € Curtis) Patouillard in Duss, Fl. Crypt. Antilles 
Fr. 230. 1904. 
Type: in Kew Herb. probably. 
“Plant 13 inch high, ¿ of an inch broad, spathulate or subin- 
fundibuliform, split on one side and slightly lobed, minutely 
striate, with raised lines, tawny, coriaceous. Stem 3 of an inch 
high, 13 line thick, incrassated at the base, and sending off 
strong branched roots. Hymenium nearly even, fuliginous; 
spores apparently fuliginous.”’ 
The above is the original description of the type specimens, 
collected in Surinam, Guiana, by Hostmann, 489. My knowl- 
edge of the species is based upon a later collection made in Cuba 
by C. Wright and determined by Berkeley. This specimen 
and the others cited below show well the longitudinal raised 
lines on the upper surface of the pileus, which is thicker than in 
related species, being 1-11 mm. thick, and the hymenium 100- 
200 uy thick; some specimens have dried with the upper surface 
pinkish buff and others from wood-brown to Verona-brown; 
hymenium even, wood-brown to fuscous; stem 10-15 mm. long, 
3-4 mm. in diameter, sometimes radicated to reach buried wood; 
no cystidia nor gloeocystidia; spores hyaline, even, becoming 
minutely rough-walled and sometimes slightly angular, 6X5 y. 
Specimens examined: 
Cuba: C. Wright, 209, authentic (in Curtis Herb.). 
