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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 3 mm. high, 2-2 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 вресіев а 
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 и; basidia 12 x 4 y. 
Specimens examined: 
New York: Sand Lake, C. H. Peck (in Coll. N. Y. State). 
I5. 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 slightly convex, even, brown ; basidia cla- 
vate, about 25 x 5-6 u, probably 2-spored; spores colorless, even, 
ellipsoidal, 8 x 31 y. 
Fructifications about 14 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. С. 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. 
