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3G2 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



3. C. galeata Schum. ex Fries, Epicr. 567. 1836-1838. 



Plate 19. fig. 2. 



Merulius galcatus Schum. Plant. Ssellandiaj 2: 371. 1803. — 

 CanthareUus galeatus Fries, Syst. Myc. i : 524. 1821; Flor. Dan. 

 12: fasc. 34. 11. pi 2027. f. 1. 1830. 



Illustrations: Flor. Dan. pi. 2027. f. 1. 



Fructifications membranaceous-soft, somewhat sessile, ob- 

 versely cup-shaped and then dimidiate, helmet-shaped, even, 

 whitish, the margin entire; hymenium at length rufescent, 

 slightly wTinkled; spores ovate or obovate, 10 x 8 m- 



Fructifications 4-15 mm. in diameter. 



On mosses. Ohio. 



When young entire, cup-shaped; gray when moist, snow- 

 white when dry, then rufescent. The above description is that 

 given in European works. The species has been reported from 

 Ohio by Morgan but I have not studied his specimens nor any 

 European specimens of this species. The form and coloration 

 of the pileus and the large spores should distinguish C. galeata 

 from the other species which occur on mosses in North America. 



4. C. muscigena Pers. ex Fries, Epicr. 567. 1836-1838. 



Plate 19. fig. 3. 



Thelephora muscigena Pers. Syn. Fung. 572. 1801; Fries, Syst. 

 Myc. 1 :524. 1821. — T. vulgaris a Candida Pers. Myc. Eur. i :115. 

 pi 7.f. 6. 1^22.— CanthareUus Ixvis Fries, Syst. Myc. i :524. 1821 ; 

 Elenchus Fung. 55. 1828. — Craterellus Pogonati Peck, Bull. Torr. 

 Bot. Club 33:218. 1906. 



Illustrations: Persoon, Myc. Eur. i : pi 7.f. 6. — Patouillard, 

 Tab. Anal. Fung. /. 465. — Oudemans, Ned. Kruidk. Archief 

 III. 2: pi 11. f. 2. 



Pileus membranaceous-soft, sessile, stipitate or attached by 

 upper surface, irregular, flattened, white, externally minutely 

 tomentulose or silky under a lens; stem when present lateral 

 or eccentric, slender, white; hymenium even or sometimes 

 rugulose, drying pinkish buff; spores white in collection on slide, 

 even, apiculate at base, flattened on one side, 4|-5 x 2^-3 n but 

 only 3-4 1 x 2-3 m in preparations of the hymenium, borne four 

 to a basidium. 



Pileus 2-6 mm. in diameter; stem when present 3-5 mm. 

 long, ^ mm. thick. 



