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the lateral pilei of H. Schomburgkii in Hennings' figure in 

 Engler & Prantl's 'Nat. Pflanzenf am. ' are perhaps conven- 

 tional. In the collection made in Jamaica by Murrill and 

 Harris, 1057, as cited below, there is one old fructification 

 with pileus dark-colored and obscurely zonate which could be 

 referred to H. formosa; this fructification is in a cluster of 

 younger, azonate fructifications. The specimen upon which 

 Fries based his Thelephora speciosa was evidently a fructi- 

 fication of H. damaecornis with upper surface of the pilei 

 bearing more setae than the normal, for he gives its dis- 

 tinctive character as ''undique velutino" and on the preced- 

 ing page has described the stem of H. damaecornis as "velu- 

 tinus, ' ' which we know to be by setae. The specimen collected 

 by Peck in Providence, New York, which is cited in Sacc. 

 'Syll. Fung.' as the northern station of Hymenochaete 

 speciosa, has no setae and should not have been referred to 

 this species. I have omitted reference to Plumier, Filic. Am. 

 pi. 168. figs. H, K, as illustrations of H. damaecornis, for it is 

 incredible that the draftsman who executed pis. 1-167 of that 

 work could have had before him a specimen of H. damaecornis 

 when he made figs. H and K of pi. 168. 



Specimens examined, additional to those cited under H. 

 formosa: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 272 (Curtis Herb.); Sierra Nipe, Oriente, 



J. A. Shafer, 3326 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and in Mo. 



Bot. Gard. Herb., 55553). 

 Jamaica: Mabiss Kiver, L. M. Underwood, 1399, comm. by 



N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. ; Troy and Tyre, W. A. Murrill S 



W. Harris, 1057 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 55552, and in Burt Herb.). 

 Honduras: M. E. Peck (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



* Stage H. formosa Leveille, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 5 : 151. 

 1846; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6 : 589. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 Jour. 27 : 96. 1890.— Compare Bresadola, Hedwigia 35 : 289. 

 1896. Plate 16, fig. 2. 



An Hymenochaete Schomburgkii Hennings in Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 9:227. 1891; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf am. (I. 

 1**) :121. /. 68 F. 1898? 



