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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, U83 (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; Sacc. 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. 



Fructifications coriaceous, small, very thin and papery, ef- 

 fuso-reflexed, laterally confluent, with reflexed portion divided 

 into small pilei, sometimes orbicular and attached by a central 

 point with margin free all around, the upper side 

 whitish to cartridge-buff, shining, silky, with ^y 



minute radiate fibrils, the margin entire, thinning C\ C^ 

 to subfimbriate, not complicate; hymenium even, ^> 



wood-brown when most deeply colored, becoming 

 bleached ; in structure 250-300 ju thick, composed s s ^ um> 

 of densely and longitudinally arranged hyaline Spores x 665. 



