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 310 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Brazil: Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, J. Rick, in Rick, 

 Fungi Austro-Am., 10. 



2. H. reniformis (Fries) Leveille, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 



5 : 151. 1846; Cooke, Grevillea 8 : 145. 1880; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 6:588. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27:96. pi. 

 5. f. 1. 1890; Romell, K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Bihang till 

 Handl. Afd. III. 26i«: 42. 1901. 



Stereum reniforme Fries, Epicr. 546. 1838; R. Soc. Sci. 

 Upsal. Actis III. 1 : 109. 1851; Leveille, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. 

 III. 2 : 210. 1844; Berkeley, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 : 382. 

 pi. 11. f. 11. 1842. 



"S. reniforme, coriaceum, cinnamomeum, pileo dimidiato 

 reniformi integerrimo zonato, stipite e basi torulosa decum- 

 bente adscendente, hymenio laevi velutino. In American 

 calidiori. Eumorphum, subvelutinum. Pileus uncialis." 



— Original description of Fries. 



In typical specimens of this species a single renif orm pileus 

 is borne at the apex of the stem. Berkeley, loc. cit., referred 

 to this species a specimen whose pileus is slightly bilobed, 

 which he figured, and he noted that the whole fructification was 

 sprinkled with short, bright, brown setae. Romell describes 

 the spores as hyaline, obliquely ellipsoidal, 5-6x4 /x. 



H. reniformis has been collected several times in Brazil but 

 not yet in the West Indies or Central America, so far as I 

 know. 



3. H. Cacao Berkeley, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 10 : 333. 1868 

 Linn. Soc. Trans. II. 1 : 403. pi. 46. f. 1-3. 1879; Sacc. Syll 

 Fung. 6:592. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27:100 

 1890. 



Stereum Cacao Berkeley, Hooker's London Jour. Bot. 6 

 169. 1854. 

 Illustrations : Linn. Soc. Trans. II. 1 : pi. 46. f. 1-3; Engl. 



6 Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. (L 1**) : 122. text f. 68 D, E. 

 Type: in Kew Herb, and a portion in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 

 Fructifications sessile, flabelliform, connate, deeply lobed 



and plicate, upper surface velvety, concentrically sulcate, 

 Brussels-brown; hymenium between fuscous and blackish 



