Hymenomycetse, Tremellacefe, Eucronartium. 211 



p. 11. — Olivaceo-virens, gelatinoso-mollis, sessilis, subglobosa, 

 cerebriformis ; hymenio amphigeno; basidiis cylindricis, furcatis, 

 35-40^5-6; sporis incoloribus ovoideis, basi tenuatis, continuis, 

 9-12 * 4-6. 



Hab. ad ligna putrida, Basse-Terre, G-uadalupa (Duss). — 

 Fungus 4-10 mm. diam., sparsus v. confluens et tunc massam 1-2 

 cm. longam formans. 



EUCRONARTIUM Atkinson in Journ. of Mycology 1902, vol. 8, p. 107 

 (Etym. Eu bene et Cronartium). — Fungilli plus minusve erecti, 

 filiformes, columnares, in sicco duri, subgelatinosi ; hymenium la- 

 teraliter tectum vel expositum. Basidia curva vel flexuosa, tenella, 

 transverse divisa, 4 sterigmata (raro 3 vel 5) gerentia; sponr con- 

 tinu;e, albo-hyalime. — Habitus TyphulcB muscicoke (Pers.) Fr. 



1. Eucronartium typhuloides Atkinson 1. c. — Albidum, filiforme, 737 

 conicum, gradatim curvulum, basi tenellum, 10-15 mm. altum, 

 0,5-1 mm. crassum, interdum pro columnis confertissimis subana- 

 stomo-antibus videtur clavulatum, longitudinaliter sulcatum, ge- 

 neraliter sparsum ; basidiis curvulis, plus minusve sinuosis, 3-5- 

 septatis, 25-40 « 6-9; sterigmatibus flexuosis, elongatis, 10-20 « 3-4; 

 sporis fusoideis, curvis vel in;equilateraliter granulosis, 18-24 » 

 3,5-5. 



Rab. in foliis vivis muscorum, in silvis Cascadilla, Ithaca, 

 Amer. bor. (H. H. Whetzel). 



