HEX AGON A DESCHAMPSII (Fig. 282.) Pileus dark reddish 

 brown, with adpressed fibrils, a few with free ends. Context thin, 

 ferruginous. Pores large, 3 to cm., rather shallow (3-4 mm. deep) 

 bright, ferruginous (never glaucous) and with prominent setae. 



This species is quite similar to apiaria but is smaller, thinner, and 

 never has the dense coat of rigid hairs characteristic of apiaria in its prime. 

 It is only known from Ceylon. Abundant specimens reached Berkeley and were 

 by him referred to crinigera of Africa (from which it is quite different). Then 

 a single specimen, having strayed into Paris, was named Hexagona Deschampsii. 



Fig. 283 

 Hexagona aculeata. Type at Paris. 



HEX AGON A ACULEATA (Fig. 283). Color reddish brown, 

 with appressed, fibrillose, zonate surface. Pileus thin. Pores medium, 

 5-6 to cm., regular. Color ferruginous. 



This is known only from one collection made in French Guiana by Leprieur. 

 It is in Montague's herbarium, and there is also a co-type at Upsala. It 

 about the same sized pores as Hexagona hirta, but is a lighter colored plant, is 

 thinner, and does not have the same dense coat of hairs. 



HEXAGONA ELEGANS (Fig. 284). Color dark reddish 

 brown. Surface with appressed, rigid fibrils and zonate. 

 dittm, 5-6 to cm., 6-8 mm. deep, glaucous. 



A single specimen of this is in the museum at Paris and its origin i is not 

 known. It is not as close to Hexagona aculeata as might appea 



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