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collections agree so well with the original description and my 

 preparation of H. Berkeleyana that I regard them as cer- 

 tainly the same species. 



Specimens examined: 

 Jamaica: Chester Vale, W. A. S Edna L. Murrill, 371, comm. 



by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; Cinchona, W. A. S Edna L. 



Murrill, 445, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 

 Guiana: Cayenne, from Montagne (in Kew Herb.). 



6. H. Sallei Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 10 : 333. 

 1868; Cooke, Grevillea 8:146. 1880; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 

 593. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27 : 101. 1890. 



Stereum elegantissimum Speggazini, Soc. Cientif. Argen- 

 tina Anal. 16 : 38. 1883. — Hymenochaete elegantissima 

 (Speg.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:594. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. 

 Bot. Jour. 27 : 99. 1890. — Stereum tenuissimum Fries, R. Soc. 

 Sci. Upsal. Actis IIL 1:111. 1851, but not of Berkeley, 

 Hooker's London Jour. Bot. 6 : 510. 1847. — Hymenochaete 

 tenuissima Berkeley, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 10 : 333. 1868, but 

 not Stereum tenuissimum Berkeley, Hooker's London Jour. 

 Bot. 6 : 510. 1847. 

 Illustrations : Broteria 5 : pi. 2. f. 4. 1906. 

 Type : in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 

 Fructifications very thin, papery, flexible when dry, umbo- 

 nate-sessile and laterally confluent, or reflexed and imbricated, 



at first fibrous on the upper sur- 

 face, antique brown, soon silky- 

 fibrous, with the fibers radially ar- 

 ranged, Argus-brown to auburn, 

 concentrically sulcate, and at 

 H. Sallei. length somewhat zonate and shin- 



Seetion X 68. From type. ing, the margin lobcd ; hymenium 

 ^ ^ ■ ' * ■ Argus-brown ; in structure 200- 



400 IX thick, with the hyphal layer simple, not bordered 

 by a dark zone, composed of somewhat loosely inter- 

 woven and longitudinally arranged, thick-walled, colored 

 hyphae 3|-4^ ix in diameter; setae 65-90 X9-10| /n, emerging 

 up to 60 /i, starting from the subhymenium which is not ap- 



