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 366 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



South Carolina: Aiken, Ravenel, Ravenel, Fung. Am., 459. 

 Missouri: Emma, C. H. Demetrio, Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 



2316b. 

 California: Half-moon Bay, San Mateo Co., E. B. Copeland, 



Baker, Pacific Coast Fungi, 3611 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



4944). 



8. C. caricina Peck, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 33 : 22. 1880. 



Plate 19. fig. 8. 



Type: in Collection New York State. 



Fructifications scattered, membranaceous, sessile, wholly 

 white, externally minutely webby-hairy; hymenium glabrous, 

 uneven in large specimens; basidia cylindric, 20 x 5 m> 4-spored; 

 spores colorless, even, lanceolate or subclavate, pointed at base, 

 8-13 X 4 M. 



Fructifications 1-2 mm. broad. 



On culms and leaves of carices. New York. August. 



The spores of the type are noteworthy by their tapering base. 



Specimens examined: 

 New York: Verona, C. H. Peck, type (in Coll. N. Y. State). 



9. C. capula Holmsk. ex Fries, Epicr. 568. 1836-1838. 



Plate 19. fig. 4. 



Peziza Capula Holmsk. Nov. Act. Havn. i : 286. /. 7; Fung. 

 Dan. 2:41. pi. 22. 1899. 



Illustrations: Holmskiold, Nov. Act. Havn. i : 286./. 7; Fung. 

 Dan. 2: pL ^^.— Flor. Dan. z^: pi. 1970. J. 5.— Patouillard, Tab. 

 Anal. Fung, i : /. 35. 



Fructifications membranaceous, obliquely campanulate, ex- 

 tended into an oblique stem, glabrous, whitish, the margin sin- 

 uate, irregularly shaped; hymenium even. ... On dead 

 stems of herbaceous plants. 



— Translation of description in Fries' 'Epicrisis.' 



Fructifications in the figures of Holmskiold 4-9 mm. high; 

 pileus 2-7 mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad; stem 1-2 mm. long. 



On dead stems of Fceniculum and other herbs. New York 

 and South Carolina. 



I have not been able to study any European specimens of 

 this species. In the copy of Cooke's 'Fungi Britannici' in the 

 herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden the packet labeled 

 C. capula, 112, contains only some pieces of stubble. The Amer- 



