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BURT THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 115 



The above is the original description of S. petalodes, a species 

 of which I have seen no specimen. Lloyd's figure of the type 

 shows the fructification to be a rosette-shaped mass 4 cm. high 

 and 6 mm. in diameter, composed of many elongated pileate 

 flaps, each of which is flattened and up to 7 mm. broad. No 

 record was published by Berkeley as to whether S. petalodes 

 grows on ground or on wood. 



27. S. anastomosans (Berk. & Curtis) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 



4. Stip. Stereums, 35. 1913. 



Thelephora anastomosans Berkeley & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 Jour. 10: 329. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:534. 1888. 



Type: in Curtis Herb, and Kew Herb. 



Fructification stipitate, white, with the pileus divided into 

 many segments; pileate branches and branchlets more or less 

 laterally grown together above, somewhat flabel- 

 liform and fimbriate, below more or less distinct _ 



or confluent into the common stem; hymenium q 



even, inferior; no cystidia nor gloeocystidia; Q 



spores copious, hyaline, even, subglobose, 4-4 J X 

 3J-4 m. Fi s- 8 - 



m j.'n j.' u l cti u'-u S. anastomosans. 



Fructifications about 2J cm. high. g 6 



On stump. Cuba. October. F rom type. 



It was noted by the authors of the species that 



5. anastomosans is allied to S. craspedium, but the divisions of 

 its pileus are narrower than I understand them to be in the lat- 

 ter. S. anastomosans is somewhat suggestive of S. Hartmanni 

 and S. proliferum but differs in having many pileate divisions 

 grow out from a common trunk so as to form a rosette-like 

 mass, as in doubled forms of Thelephora caryophyllea. 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 280, type (in Curtis Herb.). 



28. S. proliferum (Berk.) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stere- 

 ums, 34. text /. 554. 1913. Plate 4, fig. 24. 



Thelephora prolifera Berkeley, Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8 : 272. 

 1856; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 542. 1888. 

 Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 

 Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



