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878 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Fructifications about 1 mm. broad. 
On dead stems of ferns, Osmunda cinnamomea. New York. 
September. 
The type specimens of this species are immature. I could 
make out neither distinet asci nor basidia in the hymenium. 
In a crushed preparation I found one spore, colorless, even, 
pointed at one end, 6 x 23 и. It may have been а basidiospore 
of this species or it may have been a foreign spore. 
Specimens examined: 
New York: Forestburgh, C. H. Peck, type (in Coll. N. Y. 
State). 
C. perexigua Sacc. Michelia 2: 136. 1880. 
Cups bell-shaped, very short and obliquely stipitate, small, 
-4 mm. long, thin-membranaceous, internally and externally 
whitish cinereous, externally minutely puberulent; spores not 
seen. Appears related to С. eruceformis and cupuliformis but 
is one-third as large. . . . On decorticated branches. 
South Carolina. Ravenel.—Translation of original description. 
I have not seen the type of C. perexigua, which is probably in 
Saccardo Herb. As basidia and basidiospores have not been 
found for American specimens, it is uncertain whether this 
species is a Cyphella. Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung. 19. f. 34. 
1883, referred to C. perexigua a species of Cyphella which he 
collected at Poligny, France, but that reference is doubtful in 
the absence of knowledge in regard to basidia and basidiospores 
for American specimens. 
C. pezizoides Zopf, in Morgan, (Мус. Fl. Miami Val.) Jour. 
Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 10: 202. 1888. 
Type: probably in the State Univ. of Iowa Herb. 
“Fructifications membranaceous, nearly sessile, globose then 
cup-shaped, clothed externally with long erect white hairs. 
Hymenium even, brownish; spores obovate, .012-.013 mm. in 
length. 
“On old herbaceous stems; not common, cupule pezizoid, 
scarcely pedicillate, about half a line in diameter. The long 
hairs are erect and connivent over the hymenium; they are hya- 
line and incrusted with crystals of calcium oxalate.” 
—Original description. 
The type is not accessible at present. 
