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114 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Type: a fragment in Kew Herb., according to Lloyd. 
Erect, cespitose, membranaceous-soft, fragile when dry, 
palmately branched, complanate, ribbed, dilated above, lacer- 
ate-fimbriate at the apex; hymenium definitely inferior, pallid 
gilvus; spores white. 
In pine woods, Pieo de Orizaba, 10,000 ft. altitude, Mexico. 
Collected by Liebman. 
An extraordinary species, similar to Thelephora tuberosa and 
Tremellodendron pallidum but with the substance thin, some- 
what membranaceous, fragile when dry, and with the pileus 
foliaceous-complanate, ribbed (ribs commonly simple as in 
Alaria), very distinct. More than an inch high. Hymenium 
oecupying the whole lower surface, at length floccose-collapsing 
and often foveolate, almost porose; basidia evidently 4-spored. 
The above is a translation of the original description. I did 
not find the type in Herb. Fries at Upsala nor see the frag- 
ment which Lloyd has reported as preserved at Kew. 
The specimen from Dutch Guiana, which is cited below, is so 
similar in aspect to T'remellodendron pallidum that it is probably 
S. craspedium. This cluster is 7 cm. in diameter and 3-4 cm. 
high, and agrees well with details of the original description. 
The basidia are simple, only detached spores found. These are 
hyaline, even, globose, 3 y in diameter. 
Specimens examined: 
Duteh Guiana: Jacob Samuels (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. and 
Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56300). 
26. S. petalodes Berkeley, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 9: 198. 
1852; Sace. Syll Fung. 6:557. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. 
Bot. Jour. 27:165. 1890; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stere- 
ums, 32. text f. 551. 1913. Plate 3, fig. 23. 
Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 
Type: in Kew Herb. according to Lloyd. 
Pileus coriaceous, sessile, at first infundibuliform, soon split 
into numerous lobes which are again more or less divided, dull 
reddish brown, marked with long grooves or striae; hymenium 
pale, much cracked, sometimes so much so as to be nearly 
granulated. 
San Domingo. Coll., Salle, 52. 
