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192 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
num Fries in Lehmann, Plantae Preissianae 2: 137. 1847. 
Plate 6, fig. 59. 
Thelephora crassa Léveillé in Gaudichaud, Voyage Bonite Bot. 
1:190. pl. 139. f. 1. 1846. Not Stereum crassum Fries, R. 
Soc. Sci. Upsal. Actis III. r: 111. 1851.— Hymenochaete 
crassa (Lév.) Berkeley in Cooke, Grevillea 8: 148. 1880; Sacce. 
Syll. Fung. 6: 597. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 
27: 114. 1890.—H. umbrina Berk. & Curtis in Cooke, Gre- 
villea 8: 148. 1880; Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 
Jour. 10: 198. 1888; Saec. Syll. Fung. 6: 598. 1888; Massee, 
Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 113. 1890.—H. vinosa (Berk.) 
Cooke, Grevillea 8: 149. 1880; Sacc. Syll Fung. 6: 600. 
1888.— H. multispinulosa Peck, Bot. Gaz. 7: 54. 1882; Sacc. 
Syll. Fung. 6: 600. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 
108. 1890.—H. scabriseta Cooke in Ravenel, Fungi Am., 
717. 1882; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 113. pl. 5. f. 7. 
1890.— Lloydella scabriseta (Cooke) v. Höhn. & Litsch. K. Akad. 
Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 115: 1580. 1906.— Hymenochaete pur- 
purea Cooke & Morgan in Cooke, Grevillea 11:106. 1885; 
Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 10: 198. 1888; Sacce. 
Syll. Fung. 6: 597. 1888; Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 
115. 1890.— Knieffia purpurea (Cooke € Morg.) Bresadola, 
Ann. Myc. 1:100. 1903.— Peniophora intermedia Massee, Linn. 
Soc. Bot. Jour. 25: 143. 1889; Saec. Syll. Fung. 9: 238. 1891. 
— Hymenochaete Kalchbrenneri Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: 
116. 1890; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 230. 1891. 
Illustrations: Gaudichaud, Voyage Bonite Bot. pl. 139. f. 1; 
Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: pl. 5. f. 7. 
Type: in Kew Herb. and Curtis Herb. 
Fructifications coriaceous-spongy, resupinate, effused, often 
becoming reflexed, light vinaceous lilae to dark lavender when 
young, at length brownish drab to snuff-brown, the upper surface 
spongy, pitted, somewhat suleate, the reflexed margin thick, 
entire; hymenium even, somewhat velvety, sometimes cracking 
in drying, light vinaceous lilac to snuff-brown; in structure 
500-1000 y thick, composed of loosely interwoven, slightly 
colored hyphae 31—5 y in diameter, not forming an intermediate 
layer; in the subhymenial region thick-walled organs 5-6 u 
in diameter, darker colored than the hyphae, originate among the 
