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the lateral pilei of H. Schomburgkit in Hennings’ figure in 
Engler & Prantl's *Nat. Pflanzenfam.' are perhaps conven- 
tional. In the collection made in Jamaica by Murrill and 
Harris, 1057, as cited below, there is one old fructifieation 
with pileus dark-eolored and obseurely 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 T'helephora 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- 
tinetive 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 Sace. 
‘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. 
pl. 168. figs. H, K, as illustrations of H. damaecornis, for it is 
incredible that the draftsman who executed pls. 1-167 of that 
work could have had before him a specimen of H. damaecornis 
when he made figs. H and K of pl. 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 River, L. M. Underwood, 1399, comm. by 
N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; Troy and Tyre, И. A. Murrill Ф 
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 Léveillé, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. IIT. 5 : 151. 
1846; Басс. 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 Schomburgku Hennings in басс. Syll. 
Fung. 9:227. 1891; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. (I. 
1**) :121. f. 68 F. 18981 
