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num Fries in Lehmann, Plantae Preissianae 2: 137. 1847. 



Plate 6, fig. 59. 

 Thelephora crassa Leveille* in Gaudichaud, Voyage Bonite Bot. 

 i:190. pi. 189. f. 1. 1846. Not Stereum crassum Fries, R. 

 Soc. Sci. Upsal. Actis III. 1: 111. 1851. Hymenochaete 

 crassa (Lev.) Berkeley in Cooke, Grevillea 8: 148. 1880; Sacc. 

 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; Sacc. 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. pi. 5.f. 7. 

 1890. Lloydella scabriseta (Cooke) v. Hohn. & Litsch. K. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 115: 1580. 1906. Hymenochaete pur- 

 purea Cooke & Morgan in Cooke, Grevillea 11: 106. 1883; 

 Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 10: 198. 1888; Sacc. 

 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; Sacc. 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. pi. 139. f. 1; 



Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 27: pi. 5. f. 7. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications coriaceous-spongy, resupinate, effused, often 

 becoming reflexed, light vinaceous lilac to dark lavender when 

 young, at length brownish drab to snuff-brown, the upper surface 

 spongy, pitted, somewhat sulcate, the reflexed margin thick, 

 entire; hymenium even, somewhat velvety, sometimes cracking 

 in drying, light vinaceous lilac to snuff-brown; in structure 

 500-1000 ix thick, composed of loosely interwoven, slightly 

 colored hyphae 3J-5 /x in diameter, not forming an intermediate 

 layer; in the subhymenial region thick-walled organs 5-6 m 

 in diameter, darker colored than the hyphae, originate among the 



