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Fructifications broadly effused, thin, closely adnate, becoming 

 pale ivory-yellow to buffy brown in the herbarium, even, waxy, 

 not cracked, the margin whitish; in section 150 p thick, yellowish 

 by presence of numerous colored gloeocystidia, with the hyphae 

 about 2)^-3 [l in diameter, with walls gelatinously modified and 

 poorly defined, longitudinally arranged along substratum and 

 then ascending to the hymenium ; gloeocystidia somewhat colored, 

 flexuous, 30-60 X 3-5 p.; some colorless vesicular bodies present 

 also; spores hyaline, even, subglobose, 4-5 [i in diameter in Burt 

 preparation but noted by Massee as 7 X 3-4 \l. 



Fructifications 1-3 cm. in diameter. 



Under side of decaying frondose limbs on the ground. Louisi- 

 ana, California, West Indies, and Venezuela. June and Decem- 

 ber. Rare. 



C debile has gloeocystidia which are numerous and conspicuous 

 by their yellowish color; these gloeocystidia and the brown fruc- 

 tifications afford good distinguishing characters. 



Specimens examined: 

 Louisiana: St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, bb, 2674 (in N. Y. 



Bot. Gard. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 58327). 

 California: Preston's Ravine, Palo Alto, W. A. Murrill & L. S. 



Abrams, 1195, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 55709). 

 Cuba: near Havana, C. /. Humphrey, 2963. 

 Porto Rico: Bayamon, J. A. Stevenson, 6762 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 55053); Rio Piedras, J. A. Stevenson, 5620, and J. A. 



Stevenson & R. C. Rose, 6529 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



44864, 55082) ; Martin Pena, J. A. Stevenson, 3719 (in Mo. Bot. 



Gard. Herb., 7091). 

 Jamaica: Constant Spring Hotel grounds, W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 



26, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 

 Venezuela: Fendler, type (in Curtis Herb., 204). 



84. C. venosum Berk. & Ravenel, Grevillea 1: 177. 1873; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6 : 620. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27 : 

 147. 1890. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Farlow Herb. 



Fructifications broadly effused, rather thick, waxy-gelatinous 



