[Vol. 13 

 218 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Cuba: C. Wright, type of Corticium molle B. & C. (in Curtis Herb., 

 202) ; Alto Cedro, Earle & Murrill, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Card. 

 Herb. 



Africa: locality not given, P. A. van der Bijl, IS (in Mo. Bot. 

 Card. Herb., 58810). 



31. C. Bambusae Burt, n. sp. 



Type: in Burt Herb., and Farlow Herb. 



Fructifications small, becoming confluent, effused, adnate, very 

 thin, tender, small pieces separable, cartridge-buff, even, not 

 shining, somewhat cracked, the margin free in some places; in 

 section 80-120 [l thick, not colored, with the hyphae about 23^^ (x 

 in diameter, not incrusted, not nodose-septate, arranged longi- 

 tudinally along the substratum and sending out lateral branches 

 to form the hymenium; no gloeocystidia; basidia simple, 40 X 

 10 \L, with 4 sterigmata; spores hyaline, even, 14-18 X 8-9 n, 

 pointed at both ends, copious. 



Fructifications 1-3 mm. in diameter, becoming confluent over 

 an area 4 cm. long, 1-13^ cm. wide. 



On bamboo. West Indies and Venezuela. Very common. 



The small, cartridge-buff fructifications clustered together and 

 becoming confluent over the hard cortex of culms of bamboo and 

 the unusually large spores are good distinctive characters for rec- 

 ognition of this species. 



Specimens examined: 

 Trinidad: Maravel, R. Thaxier, type, comm. by W. G. Farlow, 19. 



32. C. cremoricolor Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 1: 180. 1873; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 615. 1888. — Massee, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 

 27: 133. 1890 (spelled cremicolor). 



Tjrpe: in Kew Herb, and Farlow Herb., labelled Corticium 

 cremicolor B. & C. 



Fructifications broadly effused, rather thick, membranaceous, 

 small pieces separable when moistened, becoming cream-colored 

 and pinkish buff to wood-brown in the herbarium, cracking into 

 areolae 2-3 mm. in diameter and with a distinctly radial arrange- 

 ment of the principal cracks frequently, more or less colliculose 

 with broad, slightly elevated granules, the margin narrow, fibril- 



