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BURT THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 111 



21. S. flabellatum Patouillard, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 16: 179. 

 1900; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 187. 1902; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 

 4. Stip. Stereums, 39. 1913. 



Podoscypha flabellata Patouillard in Duss, Fl. Crypt. Antilles 

 Fr. 231. 1904. 



Pileus membranaceous, thin, expanded anteriorly, regularly 

 attenuated posteriorly into a lateral stipe which is compressed ; 

 margin papyraceous, deeply incised or lobed; dorsal surface 

 marked by slight puberulence of projecting hairs or crests which 

 are slightly diverging or fan-shaped, not zonate; hymenium 

 inferior, glabrous, even; stem becoming pubescent, short, 

 enlarged at the base into a disk for attachment. 



Fructification 4-6 cm. high; stem -1 cm. long, 1-2 mm. 

 thick. Fructification erect, spathulate, often confluent by the 

 margin with neighbors, whitish when living, livid and pellucid 

 upon drying. 



On rotting wood on the ground. Guadaloupe. 



The above is a translation of Patouillard's description. Lloyd 

 saw a specimen in the museum at Berlin and states that the 

 dried specimens are dark reddish bay. 



22. S. fissum Berkeley, Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8: 273. 1856; 

 Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 169. 1890; Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 11: 120. 1895; Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stereums, 

 37. text f. 559. 1913. Plate 3, fig. 19. 



S. Huberianum P. Hennings, Hedwigia 41: (15). 1902; 43: 

 173. 1904. 



Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and in Curtis Herb. 



Pilei gregarious, occurring singly, sessile or short-stipitate, 

 coriaceous, nabelliform or wedge-shaped, often divided into 

 wedge-shaped segments, glabrous, even, not shining nor zonate, 

 white when fresh, now reddish brown in the herbarium, attached 

 by a flat mycelial pad; hymenium even; in structure 300-400 

 ix thick, composed of densely and longitudinally arranged hyaline 

 hyphae 3 m, or some 4 ^, in diameter; no cystidia nor gloeo- 

 cystidia; the few detached spores found are hyaline, even, 6X4 p. 



Pileus 8-15 mm. long, 3-15 mm. broad. 



On dead twigs, Brazil. 



