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BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 175 
N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 23108, 
3732, 54475), and C. L. Smith, in Smith, Central Am. Fungi, 
96, 97; Orizaba, W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 799, comm. by 
N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 54624); 
Trap. de la Conception, Liebman, authentic specimen of 
Stereum complicatum (in Herb. Fries). 
Porto Rico: Indiera Fria, N. L. Britton, J. F. Cowell & S. 
Brown, 4483 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 56623). 
Jamaica: Abbey Green, W. Harris, 1022; Cinchona, F. S. 
Earle, 360, and W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 600, both numbers 
comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; Hope, F. S. Earle, 119, 
comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; New Haven Gap, W. A. 
& E. L. Murrill, 770, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; 
Monkey Hill, W. A. Murrill, 790, 802, comm. by N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb.; Rose Hill, F. S. Earle, 309, 312, comm. by 
N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
48. S. sericeum Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leipzig Schrift. 
1: 106. 1822 (in B. Sterea of Thelephora); Morgan, Cincinnati 
Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 10: 195. 1888; Sace. Syll. Fung. 6: 579. 
1888. Plate 5, fig. 49. 
Thelephora striata Fries, Elenchus Fung. 1:178. 1828; 
Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4: 167. 1832.—Ster- 
eum striatum Fries, Epicr. 548. 1838, but not of p. 551 nor of 
Hym. Eur. 641. 1874. 
Illustrations: Hard, Mushrooms, 456. text f. 383. 
Type: not found by me in Herb. Schweinitz although studied 
by Berkeley & Curtis, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Jour. 3: 220. 1856. 
Fruetifieations coriaceous, small, very thin and papery, ef- 
fuso-reflexed, laterally confluent, with reflexed portion divided 
into small pilei, sometimes orbieular and attached by a central 
point with margin free all around, the upper side 
whitish to cartridge-buff, shining, silky, with e» 
minute radiate fibrils, the margin entire, thinning D c 
to subfimbriate, not complicate; hymenium even, 
wood-brown ns most deeply colored, bahing i 
bleached ; in structure 250—300 u thick, composed s. da m 
of densely and longitudinally arranged hyaline Spores x 665. 
