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BURT—THE THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 8 
Pileus coriaceous, usually flabelliform, drying pinkish buff, 
sometimes stained with adhering algae, stipitate or sessile, the 
upper surface spongy by the heavy coat of tomentum, the 
margin entire or nearly so; hymenium glabrous, marked with 
radiating, narrow, branched ribs, usually free from or with few 
warts; pileus in structure consisting of an intermediate layer, up 
to 150 џ thick, composed of densely longitudinally arranged 
hyaline hyphae about 3 y in diameter, of a very much broader 
layer forming the tomentum of the upper surface of the pileus, 
and of a hymenial layer containing numerous, flexuous, fusoid 
gloeocystidia up to 60 х 8-12 u; basidia simple, with 4 sterigmata; 
spores hyaline, even, 3-4 X 3 u; по расе found; stem spongy- 
tomentose but often absent. 
Pileus about 2-8 em. in diameter. 
On rotten wood. Mexico, West Indies, South America, Philip- 
pine Islands, Australia, and the East Indies. The usual species. 
Cladoderris infundibuliformis of the Philippines and the East 
Indies differs from C. dendritica in having the upper side much 
less tomentose, hazel or kaiser-brown in color, radially ridged 
and with the ridges radially squamulose, and the hymenium 
containing some — cystidia. 
Specimens examin 
Mexico: Orizaba, W. zi & E. L. Murrill, 775 (in N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb., 775, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 54611). 
Cuba: C. Wright, 279 (in Curtis Herb.); Alto Cedro, Earle & 
Murrill, 443, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; Baracoa, 
L. M. Underwood & F. S. Earle, 1217, comm. by N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. Herb., 1139 (in М. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Fecha, Habana, 
Cooke & Horne, comm. by Estacion Central Agronomica, 137; 
Oriente, J. A. Shafer, 3748 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 62171, 
and N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.); Pinar del Rio Province, Earle 
& Murrill, 225, comm: by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Porto Rico: on dead cane, Rio Piedras, J. R. Johnston & J. A. 
Stevenson, 1110 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55091). 
Jamaica: , 381 (in №. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb., 62172); Castleton Gardens, W. Harris, 
128, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. under the herbarium 
. name Stereum Harrisii Mass.; Moore Town, W. А. & E. І. 
Murrill, 136, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
