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Cochin China: authentic specimen of Thelephora crassa from 



LeVeille (in Kew Herb.). 

 Australia: W. N. Cheesman, comm. by E. M. Wakefield, Kew 



Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44582); Victoria, /. G. 



Luehmann, in de Thumen, Myc. Univ., 1504, under the 



name of Corticium murinum, the type distribution of Hy- 



menochaete Kalchbrenneri. 



6o. 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. pi. 124. 

 f. 9. 1879; Sacc. 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. Bui. 10: 78. 1894, and 

 Burt, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 5:367. 1918. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Grevillea 8: pi. 124- / 9; Australian 

 Fungi, pi. 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 p. thick exclu- 

 sive of the tomentose covering, com- 

 ^KS$fflff ^W posed of longitudinally and loosely 



" ^ \^^ interwoven, even-walled, pale-colored 



hyphae 3-3J p in diameter, which 



Fig 32. S. papyrinum. Sec- ive their color to the f ruct incation, 

 tion of hymenium X 488, show- ,, . ,. 



ing cystidia and paraphyses. tne intermediate layer not dense on 

 From authentic specimen. its upper side but grading into the 



