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 370 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Fructifications gregarious, adnate-sessile, membranaceous, 

 wholly gray-pallid, externally flocculose; hymenium glabrous, 

 even. 



At first having the form of globose, closed granules, soon 

 open, campanulate or crateriform, often dimidiate in old stages. 



Fructifications | mm. high, ^-2 mm. broad. 



On moist ground and on pine wood thinly covered with earth 

 and on old cracked trunks of Lonicera tartarica (in Europe). 



— Translation of original description. 



On bark, twigs and leaves lying on the ground. New York 

 and Ohio. November. 



I have not seen the type of C. griseo-pallida nor any European 

 specimens which have been compared with it, but Peck, Rep. 

 N. Y. State Mus. 30: 48. 1879, has referred to this species a 

 collection which he made at Sand Lake, New York. Peck notes 

 that his specimens sometimes have a very short stem. I found 

 the spores of these specimens hyaline, even, somewhat flattened 

 on one side, 4 x 3 m; basidia 12 x 4 /x. 



Specimens examined: 

 New York: Sand Lake, C. H. Peck (in Coll. N. Y. State). 



15. C. subgelatinosa Berk. & Rav. Grevillea 2: 5. 1873. 



Type: in Kew Herb. 



Fructifications scattered, somewhat gelatinous, sessile, flat- 

 tened, externally cinereous and farinaceous, the thin margin 

 inflexed; hymenium shghtly convex, even, brown; basidia cla- 

 vate, about 25 x 5-6 //, probably 2-spored; spores colorless, even, 

 ellipsoidal, 8 x 3| /x. 



Fructifications about 1^ mm. broad. 



On Alnus serrulata. South Carolina. 



The fructifications of the type have dried with the slightly 

 convex hymenium so prominently visible that they resemble 

 brown apothecia of lichens with a pale margin (exciple). The 

 most of the basidia are immature ; I found one showing two sterig- 

 mata distinctly. No spores were found attached to basidia; 

 the spore characters, which are given above, are those of loose 

 spores in the preparation. C. subgelatinosa is so very distinct 

 from our other species of Cyphella that it will probably be over- 

 looked by botanists collecting Basidiomycetes only, unless es- 

 pecially kept in mind. 



