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BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 115 
The above is the original description of S. petalodes, a species 
of which I have seen no specimen. Lloyd’s figure of the type 
shows the fructification to be a rosette-shaped mass 4 cm. high 
and 6 mm. in diameter, composed of many elongated pileate 
flaps, each of which is flattened and up to 7 mm. broad. No 
record was published by Berkeley as to whether S. petalodes 
grows on ground or on wood. 
27. S. anastomosans (Berk. € Curtis) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 
4. Stip. Stereums, 35. 1913. 
Thelephora anastomosans Berkeley & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. 
Jour. 10: 329. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:534. 1888. 
Type: in Curtis Herb. and Kew Herb. 
Fructification stipitate, white, with the pileus divided into 
many segments; pileate branches and branchlets more or less 
laterally grown together above, somewhat flabel- 
liform and fimbriate, below more or less distinct 
or confluent into the common stem; hymenium O O 
even, inferior; no cystidia nor gloeocystidia; O 
spores copious, hyaline, even, subglobose, 4-43 X 
1-4 m Fig. 8. 
Fructifications about 23 em. high. Prop 
On stump. Cuba. October. From type. 
It was noted by the authors of the species that 
S. anastomosans is allied to S. craspedium, but the divisions of 
its pileus are narrower than I understand them to be in the lat- 
ter. S. anastomosans is somewhat suggestive of S. Hartmanni 
and S. proliferum but differs in having many pileate divisions 
grow out from a common trunk so as to form a rosette-like 
mass, as in doubled forms of Thelephora caryophyllea. 
Specimens examined: 
Cuba: C. Wright, 280, type (in Curtis Herb.). 
28. S. proliferum (Berk.) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stere- 
ums, 34. text f. 554. 1913. Plate 4, fig. 24. 
Thelephora prolifera Berkeley, Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8: 272. 
1856; Saec. Syll. Fung. 6:542. 1888. 
Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 
Type: in Kew Herb. and Curtis Herb. 
