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196 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Cochin China: authentic specimen of Thelephora crassa from 
Léveillé (in Kew Herb.). 
Australia: W. N. Cheesman, comm. by E. M. Wakefield, Kew 
Herb. (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44582); Victoria, J. G. . 
Luehmann, in de Thümen, Myc. Univ., 1504, under the 
name of Corticium murinum, the type distribution of Hy- 
menochaete  Kalchbrenneri. 
60. 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. 10: 
331. 1868. Plate 6, fig. 60. 
Peniophora papyrina (Mont.) Cooke, Grevillea 8: 20. pl. 124. 
f. 9. 1879; Saec. 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. Bul. 10:78. 1894, and 
Burt, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 5:367. 1918. 
Illustrations: Cooke, Grevillea 8: pl. 124. f. 9; Australian 
Fungi, pl. 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 y thick exclu- 
sive of the tomentose covering, com- 
posed of longitudinally and loosely 
interwoven, even-walled, pale-colored 
hyphae 3-33 » in diameter, which 
. S.papyrinum. Bec- piye their color to the fructification, 
the intermediate layer not dense on 
Fig. 32 
tion of hymenium X 488, show- 
ing cystidia and paraphyses. 
From authentie specimen. its upper side but grading into the 
