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21. S. flabellatum Patouillard, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bul. 16: 179. 
1900; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 187. 1902; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 
4. Stip. Stereums, 39. 1913. 
Podoscypha flabellata Patouillard in Duss, Fl. Crypt. Antilles 
Fr. 281. 1904. 
Pileus membranaceous, thin, expanded anteriorly, regularly 
attenuated posteriorly into a lateral stipe which is compressed; 
margin papyraceous, deeply incised or lobed; dorsal surface 
marked by slight puberulence of projecting hairs or crests which 
are slightly diverging or fan-shaped, not zonate; hymenium 
inferior, glabrous, even; stem becoming pubescent, short, 
enlarged at the base into a disk for attachment. 
Fructification 4-6 cm. high; stem 3-1 cm. long, 1-2 mm. 
thick. Fructification erect, spathulate, often confluent by the 
margin with neighbors, whitish when living, livid and pellucid 
upon drying. 
On rotting wood on the ground. Guadaloupe. 
The above is a translation of Patouillard's description. Lloyd 
saw a specimen in the museum at Berlin and states that the 
dried specimens are dark reddish bay. 
22. S. fissum Berkeley, Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8: 273. 1856; 
Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 169. 1890; Saec. Syll. 
Fung. 11: 120. 1895; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stereums, 
37. text f. 559. 1913. Plate 3, fig. 19. 
S. Huberianum P. Hennings, Hedwigia 41: (15). 1902; 43: 
173. 1904. 
Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 
Type: in Kew Herb. and in Curtis Herb. 
Pilei gregarious, occurring singly, sessile or short-stipitate, 
coriaceous, flabelliform or wedge-shaped, often divided into 
wedge-shaped segments, glabrous, even, not shining nor zonate, 
white when fresh, now reddish brown in the herbarium, attached 
by a flat mycelial pad; hymenium even; in structure 300—400 
u thick, composed of densely and longitudinally arranged hyaline 
hyphae 3 u, or some 4 y, in diameter; no cystidia nor gloeo- 
cystidia; the few detached spores found are hyaline, even, 6 X4 u. 
Pileus 8-15 mm. long, 3-15 mm. broad. 
On dead twigs, Brazil. 
