[Vol. 11 

 6 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Specimens examined: 

 Mexico: near Sanborn, Oaxaca, C. R. Orcutt, 3336 (in N. Y. 



Bot. Gafd. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 37345). 

 Honduras: P. Wilson, 237, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 

 Guiana: Spruce, 70 (in Curtis Herb.). 

 Bolivia: IVIapiri, A. M. Bang, distributed by Columbia College 



Herb., 1479 (in Burt Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 5002). 



CYMATELLA 



Cymatella Patouillard, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 15: 193. pi 9,f. 4-6. 

 1899; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 49. 1902. 



Marasmioid fungi, minute, stipitate, reviving with moisture; 

 pileus lacking a pellicle; hymenium inferior, lacking lamellae, 

 even or slightly wavy; spores hyaline. 



Cymatella is a genus of a few species of tropical fungi, segregated 

 from Crater ellus, with which the specimens agree in the even 

 h>Tnenium and consistency, but related to Marasmius in structure 

 of the pileus and the reviving of the specimens with moisture. 

 The specimens are not notably marasmioid in the recent gathering 

 which I have seen and the genus seems unnecessary. 



1. Cymatella minima Patouillard, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 15: 

 193. pi 9, /. 6. 1899; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 49. 1902. 



Plate 1, fig. 6. 



Pileus plano-convex, reniform, glabrous, pale russet (roux), 

 3-4 mm. broad, thin, very slightly fleshy, without a pellicle, the 

 margin entire, straight, indented at the base; stem filiform, 

 stuffed, 3 mm. long, glabrous, black, marasmioid, a little larger 

 towards the base, attached to the pileus eccentrically near the 

 indentation; trama composed of loosely arranged, septate, pallid- 

 reddish hyphae 3-5 [i in diameter; hymenium inferior, dark red, 

 even or with few radial, shallow undulations; basidia clavate, 

 20-23 X 5-6 [L, with 4 sterigmata; no cystidia; spores hyaline, 

 even, ovoid, 3-4 (x long. 



On decaying bark. Guadeloupe. 



I have seen no specimens of C. minima. The figure, after 

 Patouillard, somewhat resembles Craterellus Humphreyi, a much 

 larger species, white in color and fleshy. 



