130 REV. M. J. BERKELEY ON SOME NEW FUNGI. 
This very beautiful Fungus, which is remarkable in the genus Craterellus for its 
elegant habit and extremely thin pileus, is conspicuous from the beautiful red of the 
pileus, resembling that of fading leaves of Ampelopsis quinquefolia. It is altogether one 
of the most charming species with which I am acquainted. 
3. SKEPPERIA, nov. gen. (TAB. XXV. A.) 
Stipes brevis, lateralis, in pileum tenuem utrinque arcte convolutum clavulamque obtusam referentem 
abrupte transiens; pileus externe cellulosus intus filamentosus.— Genus Stereo affine, Edmundo 
Skeppero plantarum Cryptogamicarum solerti indagatori dicatum. ` 
S. CONVOLUTA, Berk. & Curt. 
On dead sticks, Venezuela (Fendler, no. 286). ; 
About 1 line high. Stem rising from a little orbicular disk } of a line high, but con- 
fluent for some distance with the pileus and rather paler; pileus 2 of a line high, of a 
deep vinous brown, sprinkled with little heaps of granules arising from the breaking up 
of the outer coat, strongly convolute on either side, so as to form a little compact clavate 
body with-a deep groove on one side like that of a grain of wheat, composed externally of 
cells, internally of filaments which give rise to the hymenium. Hymenium pale, studded 
with cystidia. 
This singular Fungus looks at first sight like a little Mitrula, with which genus it 
may be confounded if the microscopical structure is neglected. The outer surface, how- 
ever, is covered with little heaps of granules consisting of a number of deeply coloured 
cells, beneath which smaller cells occur, which pass into branched threads, and these into 
an even hymenium consisting of closely packed sporophores with projecting cystidia. 
Few genera are more singular in their characters. Notwithstanding the resemblance | 
of Pistillaria, there is no close affinity. Skepperia will come next to Stereum, without 
however passing into it by any intermediate forms, 
4. MITREMYCES RAVENELIT, Berk. (Tas. XXV. B.) Pusillus; peridio exteriori in ver- 
rucas parvas liberas vel cohærentes dehiscente; interiori glabro; intimo conformi, 
nec spatio magno vacuo circumdato ; sporis ellipticis; ostiolo miniato. 
On the ground. Czsar’s Head, Mountains of South Carolina (H. W. Ravenel, Esg.). 7 
Rather more than 4 an inch high, including the stem. Stem short, consisting of intricate | 
mucedinous threads. Outer peridium cracking yp into warts of various sizes, which are 
sometimes scattered, but sometimes adhere together so as to form.a little lid. Inner 
peridium smooth, pale, terminated with a few triangular vermilion-coloured teeth; inmost | 
delicate, entirely filling the cavity of the second peridium ; flocci abundant, white, ter- 
minated with little racemes of obtuse processes; spores ovate, 3000 inch long, not 
granulated. ; 
Very distinct from all the other species in the larger size of the inmost peridium. The 
nearest ally is Mitremyces Junghuhnii, figured in the ‘Botanische Zeitung” for 1844, 
which has the teeth of the ostiolum pale, and the spores globose. 
