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ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Cochin China: authentic specimen of Thelephora crassa from 



Leveille (in Kew Herb.). 

 Australia: W. N. Cheesman, comm. by E. M. Wakefield, Kew 



Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 44582); Victoria, /. G. 



Luehmann, in de Thiimen, Myc. Univ., 1504, under the 



name of Corticium murinum, the type distribution of Hy- 



menochaete Kalchhrenneri. 



6o. S. papyrinum Montagne in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. 

 Cuba PL Cell. 374. 1842; ibid., folio ed., 9:228. 1845; Syll. 

 Crypt. 178. 1856; Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. lo: 

 331. 1868. Plate 6, fig. 60. 



Peniophora papyrina (Mont.) Cooke, GrevilleaS: 20, pi. 124- 

 f. 9. 1879; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 641. 1888; Massee, Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. Jour. 25: 140. 1889. — Stereum nicaraguense Berk. 

 & Curtis, Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. Proc. 4: 123. 1853; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6: 567. 1888. — >S. nicaraguae Berk. & Curtis in 

 Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 183. 1890. — An Hymeno- 

 chaete pallida Cooke & Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 97. 

 1890? See Patouillard, Myc. Soc. Fr. Bui. 10: 78. 1894, and 

 Burt, Ann. Mo. Bot. Card. 5:367. 1918. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Grevillea 8: pi. 124- f- 9; Australian 

 Fungi, pi. 11. f. 82. 

 Type: in Kew Herb. 



Fructification coriaceous-papery, thin, pliant, resupinate and 

 widely effused, sometimes reflexed, rarely umbonate sessile, 



the upper side tomentose, concen- 

 trically sulcate, drying snuff-brown, 

 weathering to cartridge-buff, the 

 margin entire; hymenium even, vel- 

 vety, snuff-brown to Benzo-brown; 

 in structure 500-600 ju thick exclu- 

 sive of the tomentose covering, com- 

 posed of longitudinally and loosely 

 interwoven, even-walled, pale-colored 

 hyphae 3-3| ju in diameter, which 

 Fig. 32. s. papyrinum. Sec- g^^g ^^eij. ^olor to the fructification, 



tion of hjTiienium X 488, show- ,^ • , ^^ , ^ , i 



ing cystidia and paraphyses. ^he intermediate layer not dense on 

 From authentic specimen. its upper side but grading irito the 



