Part 1, 1907] POLYPORACEAE 61 
12. Hexagona caperata (Pat.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 31: 331. 1904. 
Favolus caperatus Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 18: 171. 1902. 
Pileus convex, attenuate at the base; surface striate, pallid to reddish-brown, with a 
conspicuous covering of short grayish hairs, which partly disappear with age; margin 
more or less incised or lobed, deflexed, neither ciliate nor tessellate : context fleshy, white; 
tubes deep, white, angular, concolorous, with large, soft, fleshy, fimbriate dissepiments : 
spores ovoid-cylindrical, smooth, hyaline, 10-125; cystidia none: stipe wanting, or a 
mere rounded lateral tubercle. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Guadeloupe. 
HaBITaT: Dead trunk of Brysonima spicata. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
13. Hexagona subpurpurascens Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus subcircular, convex, depressed at the center, 1-1.5 &1-1.5X0.1-0.2 cm.; sur- 
face reddish-brown with purple areoles, subpruinose to glabrous ; margin very thin, entire, 
strongly inflexed on drying: context fleshy-tough, membranous, white, opaque; tubes 
decurrent, white, 1-1.5 mm. long, 4-6-angled,. mouths 11.5 mm., edges thin, entire: 
spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline: stipe excentric, slightly tapering, white, 0.5-1 cm. 
long, 1.5mm. thick. 
Type collected on dead sticks in woods at Sioseeiowii, Jamaica, November 22, 1902, &. S. Earle 
557. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
14. Hexagona purpurascens (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill, Bull. 
Torrey Club 31: 331. 1904. 
Favolus purpurascens Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 321. 1868. 
Pileus spatulate to flabelliform, 1.5-2.5>< 1-4 X0.1-0.3 cm.; surface lurid-purple, 
glabrous; margin thin, entire, incurved when dry: context fleshy-tough, white, opaque; 
tubes decurrent to the base of the stipe, lighter than the pileus, 2 mm. long, 4-6-angled, 
mouths 1-1.5X2-2.5 mm., edges thin, becoming lacerate: spores ellipsoidal, smooth, 
hyaline: stipe lateral, equal, more or less hispid, 4 mm. long, 1-2 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
Hasitat: Trunks of trees. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
15. Hexagona portoricensis Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 331. 1904. 
: Pileus centrally stipitate, circular, deeply umbilicate, 4 x 0.3 cm.; surface subglabrous, 
‘umbrinous, the center concolorous ; margin entire, not very thin, muchinflexed when dry: 
context white, fibrous, 1 mm. thick, opaque; tubes somewhat decurrent, white, 2 mm. 
long, 4-6-angled, mouths 13 mm., smaller and more regular near the margin, edges 
thin, fimbriatulate: spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, 2-guttulate, 3-5 K 8-10: stipe 
central, compressed, slightly tapering downward, subconcolorous, minutely tomentose, 2 
em. long, 4 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: “Porto Rico. 
HapsitaT: Decaying wood in the mountains. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
16. Hexagona hondurensis Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 331. 1904. 
Pileus centrally stipitate, circular, slightly umbilicate, 24> 0.05 cm.; surface faintly 
radiate-striate, subglabrous, fulvous, the center fuliginous; margin thin, regular, tessel- 
late, inflexed when dry, fringed with numerous short, fugacious cilia: context white, 
fibrous, 0.25 mm. thick, translucent near the margin; tubes adnate, white, 0.3 mm. long, 
hexagonal, radially elongate, mouths 1X2 mm., much smaller near the margin, edges 
