1920] 
BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 199 
Nicaragua: C. Wright, 264, type of S. nicaraguense (in Curtis 
Herb.); Castillo Viejo, C. L. Smith, in Smith, Central Am. 
Fungi, 95; Ometepe, C. L. Smith, in Smith, Central Am. 
Fungi, 93b; San Juan del Norte, C. L. Smith, in Smith, 
Central Am. Fungi, 94. 
Canal Zone: Gatun, M. A. H. (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. and 
Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56715). 
Colombia: Bonda, C. F. Baker, 26. 
Brazil: Santo Anna da Chapada, Matto Grosso, G. O. Malme, 
564, comm. by L. Romell. 
61. S. Earlei Burt, n. sp. Plate 6, fig. 61. 
Type: in Burt Herb. and N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Fructification coriaceous-spongy, dry, effuso-reflexed, with 
the upper surface tomentose, snuff-brown, the margin entire; 
hymenium mouse-gray and some- 
what pruinose in the older portion, 
snuff-brown and veined toward the 
margin; in structure with the in- 
termediate layer 150 y thick, com- ? 
posed of longitudinally interwoven, S 
colored hyphae 3-4 u in diameter, 
with the hymenial layer up to 200 
dir Gs C 
u thick, zoned, containing cystidia 
in all its portions; cystidia colored, 
heavily hyaline incrusted on the JAE A ce 
outer half, slender-pointed, 45-60 Lr x ss wo co easy 
< 5-12 u, protruding up to 30 y; s x 4 
spores hyaline, even, 5-63-33 u 
Reflexed portion up to 1 em. broad; resupinate portion lat- 
erally confluent for 8 cm., but a strip only 1 cm. wide removed 
from the substratum. 
In a wood pile. Hope Gardens, Jamaica. November. 
Fructifications of this species have the general aspect of those 
of S. papyrinum, but are thinner, more compactly inter- 
woven, with slenderer cystidia, and have the hymenial layer up 
to 200 u thick and composed of several zones; cystidia are 
present in each of these zones, and those of the innermost zones 
do not reach to the surface of the hymenium. In S. papyrinum 
