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376 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
One might regard this fungus as the type species of а new 
genus distinet from Cyphella or Solenia by the common central 
mass on which the individual eups are borne, but in Cyphella 
fasciculata the cups sometimes occur singly and sometimes 
branching from a common central or basal mass. For this reason 
it seems best to include the present species in Cyphella through 
its relationship in plan of structure to C. fasciculata, from which 
it is specifically distinct in other respects, however. Both these 
species are excluded from Solenia by their short and globose 
fructifications and by the absence of a subiculum on the general 
area over which the clustered fructifications are distributed. 
Specimens examined: 
New Hampshire: Lower Bartlett, В. Thaxter, comm. by W. С. 
Farlow, 4, type (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 43806, and in 
Farlow Herb.). 
New York: Adirondack Mts., C. H. Peck, comm. by H. D. House 
(in Coll. N. Y. State and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 43818); 
North Elba, C. H. Peck, comm. by H. D. House (in Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb., 43819). 
21. C. fumosa Cooke, Grevillea 20:9. 1891. Plate 19. fig. 11. 
Type: in Kew Herb. 
Fructifications gregarious, membranaceous, cup-shaped, 
flexuous, sepia or olive-brown and blackening, even, attenuated 
below into a very short stipe, or sessile; hymenium even; basidia 
cylindrie-clavate, 20 x 4-5 и; spores colorless, even, somewhat 
flattened on one side, 6-8 x 33-4 и. 
Fructifications 1-2 mm. broad. 
On rotting leaves of Gladiolus. South Carolina. 
Cooke described the spores of this species as globose, 4 и in 
diameter, but I found no such spores in my preparation from 
the type. Spores 6-8 x 31-4 и are abundant and are probably 
the spores of this species, although I could not find any spores 
still attached to the basidia. I conclude from my microscopical 
preparations that the fructifications are glabrous. 
Specimens examined: 
South Carolina: Aiken, Ravenel, 3071, type (in Kew Herb.). 
