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BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 169 
Mexico: Trap. de la Conception, Liebman, type of Stereum 
radians (in Herb. Fries); Jalapa, W. A. € E. L. Murrill, 
343, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 55477). 
47. S. rameale Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leipzig Schrift. 
1:106. 1822 (under B. Sterea of Thelephora). Plate 5, fig. 48. 
Thelephora hirsuta Fries, Elenchus Fung. 1: 178. 1828, 
but not of Syst. Myc. 1:439. 1821.— T. hirsuta B ramealis 
Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4:107. 1832.— 
Stereum complicatum Fries, Epicr. 548. 1838; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 
6:579. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27:178. 1890. 
—S. radians of Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 10: 
194. 1888, but not S. radians Fries.—Telephora lobata Bertolo- 
nii, Accad. Sci. Bologna Mem. I. 7:360. pl. 19. f. e-g. 1856; 
Underwood & Earle, Ala. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bul. 80:232. 1897.— 
Stereum Bertolonit Saccardo, Sacc. Syll. Fung. 11:120. 1895. 
Illustrations: Berkeley & Broome, Linn. Soc. Bot. Trans. 
2: pl.14.f. 12-14. 1883; Bertolonii, loc. cit. 
Type: in Herb. Schweinitz and in Herb. Fries. 
Fructifications coriaceous, thin, rigid, effuso-reflexed, rarely 
resupinate, with the reflexed portion consisting of small, umbo- 
nate pilei, which are sometimes subdivided into 
lobes, the pilei or lobes drying folded together or 
crisped, fibrose-strigose, becoming glabrous on the 2 
marginal portion, shining, with innate fibers F æ 
radiating from the base, cinnamon-buff to hazel, : 
more or less zoned; hymenium even, glabrous, o 
light buff to cream-buff; in structure 300-450 u Spores X 650. 
thick, composed of densely, longitudinally ar- 
ranged, hyaline hyphae 3-33 u in diameter, colored conducting 
organs 3-33 u in diameter occasionally present; no cystidia 
nor gloeocystidia; spores white in spore collection, even, 
slightly curved, 6X2-23 y. 
Fructifications sometimes covering areas only 5-10 mm. in 
diameter, and gregarious, at other times irregularly confluent 
over areas up to 3 em. broad and 10 cm. and more long; indi- 
vidual pilei 2-10 mm. broad, 3-10 mm. long. 
On dead twigs and stumps of oak and other frondose species. 
