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314 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
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. А. Ф Edna L. Murrill, 371, comm. 
by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; Cinchona, W. A. € Edna L. 
Murrill, 445, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Guiana: Cayenne, from Montagne (in Kew Herb.). 
6. Н. Sallei Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 10: 333. 
1868; Cooke, Grevillea 8:146. 1880; Sace. Syll. Fung. 6: 
093. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27 : 101. 1890. 
Stereum elegantissimum Speggazini, бос. Cientif. Argen- 
tina Anal. 16: 38. 1883.— Hymenochaete elegantissima 
(Speg.) басс. Syll. Fung. 6:594. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. 
Bot. Jour. 27 : 99. 1890.—Stereum tenuissimum Fries, R. Soc. 
Sei. Upsal. Actis III. 1:111. 1851, but not of Berkeley, 
Hooker's London Jour. Bot. 6:510. 1847.—14H ymenochaete 
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: pl. 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 imbrieated, 
at first fibrous on the upper sur- 
face, antique brown, soon silky- 
fibrous, with the fibers radially ar- 
ranged, Argus-brown to auburn, 
concentrically suleate, and at 
length somewhat zonate and shin- 
— x пи ги type. ing, the margin lobed; hymenium 
Argus-brown; in structure 200- 
400 р 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 33-44 и in diameter; setae 65-909-104 и, emerging 
up to 60 џ, starting from the subhymenium which is not ap- 
