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BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 113 
Thelephora Hartmanni Montagne, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. II. 
20: 366. 1843; Syll. Crypt. 176. 1856; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 
535. 1888.— T. dissecta Léveillé, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 5: 
146. 1846; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 531. 1888; Lloyd, loc. cit., 39. 
Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 
Type: authentic specimen from Montagne in Kew Herb. 
Pilei solitary or cespitose, sessile or barely stipitate, coriaceous, 
thin, white, wedge-shaped, deeply cleft into narrow segments 
which are more or less pectinate along their margins and apex 
and have these teeth-like portions incurved; no cystidia; no 
gloeocystidia; spores hyaline, even, subglobose, 4-5 X 34-4 u. 
Pileus 7-50 mm. long, 5-40 mm. broad. 
On decaying wood and bark and dead herbaceous stems. 
Carolina to Bolivia. July to September in West Indies and 
February in Bolivia. 
The pilei of S. Hartmann occur in small tufts of two or three 
in the specimens which have been seen; they are very dainty 
and unique by the narrow pectinate margins and tips which are 
more or less incurved; rarely these teeth occur on the lower 
surface of segments of the pileus in a manner suggestive of teeth 
of an Irpex but they are in most cases marginal. The maximum 
dimensions of the pileus are from the Porto Rican collection; 
the other specimens do not have pilei more than 2-3 cm. long. 
I have not seen the type of Thelephora dissecta Lév., which was 
collected in Guadeloupe; the description agrees so well with S. 
Hartmann: that I have followed Lloyd's conclusion that T. 
dissecta is a synonym of S. Hartmannt. 
Specimens examined: 
Carolina: Hartmann, authentic, from Montagne (in Kew Herb.). 
Porto Rico: Luquillo Mountain, P. Wilson, 313 (in N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56302). 
St. Kitt's: N. L. Britton & J. F. Cowell, 706, comm. by N. Y. 
Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Bolivia: R. E. Fries, 272, comm. by L. Romell, 447 (in Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb., 54780). 
25. S. craspedium (Fries) Burt, n. comb. Plate 3, fig. 22. 
Thelephora (Merisma) craspedia Fries, R. Soc. Sci. Upsal. 
Actis III. 1: 108. 1851; Saec. Syll. Fung. 6: 533. 1888; 
Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stereums, 34. 1913. 
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