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110 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Specimens examined: 
Cuba: C. Wright, 510, type (in Curtis Herb.); EI Yunque, 
Baracoa, L. M. Underwood & F. S. Earle, 1087, 1141, 
comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., 1141 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 56588). 
Porto Rico: Rio Piedras, J. R. Johnston, 89 (in N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56284). 
20. S. glabrescens Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 
10: 330. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 558. 1888; Massee, Linn. 
Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 169. 1890; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. 
Stereums, 37. text f. 558. 1913. Plate 3, fig. 18. 
Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 
Type: in Kew Herb. and Curtis Herb. 
Fructifications scattered, sometimes two from a common 
mycelial pad, stipitate; pileus flabelliform, zonate, minutely 
velvety, sometimes nearly glabrous, drying Verona-brown to 
chestnut, the margin paler, tapering behind into a short stem; 
stem lateral, nearly equal, velvety; hymenium even, concave, 
drying pinkish buff; no cystidia nor gloeocystidia; spores 
hyaline, even, 4-5X3-4 y. 
Pileus 5-20 mm. long, 5-20 mm. broad; stem 2-10 mm. long, 
1-13 mm. thick. 
On fallen twigs and mossy rotten wood. West Indies. May 
to September. 
S. glabrescens has small, rather scattered fructifications, with 
firm, coriaceous, minutely velvety pileus and stem, small sub- 
globose spores, and no cystidia, and it occurs on wood. Some 
collections are nearly glabrous. A mycelial pad is usually 
present at base of stem. 
Specimens examined: 
Cuba: C. Wright, 520, type (in Curtis Herb.); Pinar del Rio, 
J. A. Shafer, 13906 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. and Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb., 56298). 
Porto Rico: Ponce, F. S. Earle, 163, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
Herb. 
Jamaica: Hollymount, L. M. Underwood, 3427 (in N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56299). 
Dominica: Landat, F. E. Lloyd, 380, comm. by N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb. 
