[Vol. 2 

 740 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



West Virginia : Eglon, C. G. Lloyd, 02634. 

 Missouri: Creve Coeur, E. A. Burt (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 

 44755). 



4. T. tenue Burt, n. sp. Plate 26, fig. 7. 



Type: in Burt Herb, and in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Fructifications scattered, erect, very slender, coriaceous- 

 soft, drying warm buff, stipitate ; stem equal, flexuous, drying 

 somewhat twisted and flattened, becoming fibrillose, some- 

 times giving off two or three scattered, divergent, small 

 branches, dilated above and divided in a few palmately ar- 

 ranged, finger-shaped branches; hymenium inferior on the 

 dilated portion and branches ; basidia longitudinally septate, 

 20-24 X 12-14 n ; spores colorless, simple, even, curved, 

 pointed at both ends, 14-16 X 6-7 /i. 



Fructifications 2-3^ cm. high, 3 mm. broad ; stem 1^2^ cm. 

 long, about ^1 mm. thick. 



On the ground in wet mountainous region, altitude 3000- 

 5200 ft. Jamaica. December and January. 



This species is characterized by its long and slender stem, 

 few branches, and the largest basidia and spores of any 

 species of the genus. The spores differ from those of the other 

 species in being pointed at the apex. 



Specimens examined: 

 Jamaica: Chester Vale, W. A. & E. L. Murrill, N. Y. Bot. 



Gard., Fungi of Jamaica, 400, type; Cinchona, W. A. d 



E. L. Murrill, N. Y. Bot. Gard., Fungi of Jamaica, 614. 



5. T. merismatoides (Schw.) Burt, n. comb. Plate 26, fig. 4. 

 Clavaria merismatoides Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. 



N. S. 4 : 182. 1834. — Merisma Schweinitzii Leveille, Ann. Sci. 

 Nat. Bot. IV. 5 : 157. 1846. — LacJinocladium merismatoides 

 (Schw.) Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 10:193. 

 1888. — Pterula merismatoides (Schw.) Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 

 6 : 742. 1888. — Thelephora merismatoides Lloyd, Letter No. 26 : 

 2. 1909. Nomen nudum. — Tremellodendron merismatoides 

 Lloyd, Letter No. 40 : 2. 1912. Nomen nudum. — Thelephora 

 ptendoides Berk. & Curt., Hooker's Jour. Bot. 1:238. 1849; 

 Grevillea 1 : 148. 1873. 



