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 180 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



8. Bottle-brush structure disorganized by KHO solution; spores 12-15 X 

 9-12 fi; fructifications white, 60-90 /i thick; on frondose wood in 

 Cuba 12. A. tenuis 



8. Paraphyses flexuous, 6 /* in diameter, some of them with a cluster 

 of prongs at the tips; spores subglobose, 15-20 fi in diameter; on 

 Tsuga and Pseudotsuga in Idaho and westward 13. A. penicillatus 



8. Bottle-brush organs about 23X12 fi, cockroach-shaped; spores sub- 

 globose, 6-12 fx. in diameter; on Abies, Thuja, and Larix in Idaho 

 and British Columbia IJf. A. Weirii 



1. A. amorphus (Pers.) Eabenhorst, Fungi Eur. Exs., 

 1824. 1874; Hedwigia 13 : 184. 1874; Cooke, Grevillea 3 : 136. 

 1875; Schroeter, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien 3 : 429. 1888; v. Holm. 

 & Litsch. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 116 : 799. pi. 1. 

 f. 2. 1907; Bourd. & Galz. Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 28 : 350. 1913. 



Peziza amorpha Persoon, Syn. Fung. 657. 1801 ; Myc. Eur. 

 1 : 269. 1822. — Thelephora amorpha (Pers.) Fries, Elenchus 

 Fung. 1 : 183. 1828. — Corticium amorphum (Pers.) Fries, 

 Epicr. 559. 1838; Hym. Eur. 648. 1874; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6 : 

 606. 1888. — Cyphella amorpha (Pers.) Quelet, Ench. Fung. 

 215. 1886. — Nodularia balsamicola Peck, N. Y. State Mus. 

 Kept. 24 : 96. pi 4. /. 23-26. 1872. 



Illustrations: De Bary, Comp. Morph. and Phys. Fungi, 

 /. 30; Hennings in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. (1.1**) : 

 /. 67, C-D; V. Hohn. & Litsch. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungs- 

 ber. 1165: pi 1. /. 2; Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung. /. 584; 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Kept. 24 : pi 4. f. 23-26. 



Fructifications disk-shaped, scattered or sometimes con- 

 fluent, somewhat fleshy, drying coriaceous, attached by a 

 point, the margin free, elevated, incurved ; hymenium convex, 

 pulverulent, buff -pink at first, becoming deep olive-buff in the 

 herbarium, the margin paler; in structure 500-1000 n thick, 

 composed of densely interwoven, hyaline hyphae 3 /x in diam- 

 eter, granule-incrusted and with the granules crystalline and 

 sometimes up to 12 /x in diameter but not so numerous as to 

 conceal the structure of the fructification; paraphyses hya- 

 line, filiform, flexuous, often moniliform, 4^^ jx in diameter; 

 basidia clavate, large, 120x18 m, with four large sterigmata; 

 spores subglobose with hyaline wall, minutely echinulate, 

 20-27x16-21 /x. 



Fructifications 1-3 and 4 mm. in diameter, ^1 mm. thick 

 where not attached, 2 mm. thick where attached. 



