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the lateral pilei of H, SchomhurgJcii in Hennings' figure in 

 Engler & PrantPs *Nat. Pflanzenfam/ are perhaps conven- 

 tional. In the collection made in Jamaica by Murrill and 

 Harris, 1057, as cited below, there is one old fructification 

 with pileus dark-colored and obscurely 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 Thelephora 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- 

 tinctive character as ^^undique velutino'' and on the preced- 

 ing page has described the stem of H. damaecornis as * Welu- 

 tinus, ' ' which we know to be by setae. The specimen collected 

 by Peck in Providence, New York, which is cited in Sacc. 

 *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. 

 pi. 168. figs. H, K, as illustrations of H. damaecornis, for it is 

 incredible that the draftsman who executed pis. 1-167 of that 

 work could have had before him a specimen of H. damaecornis 

 when he made figs. H and K of pi. 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, W, A, Murrill S 



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 Leveille, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 5 : 151. 

 1846; Sacc. 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 Schomhurgkii Hennings in Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 9:227. 1891; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. (I. 

 1**) :121. /. 68 F, 1898! 



