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380 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
C. musecola Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. то: 337. 
1867. 
Type: type and cotype in Kew Herb. and Curtis Herb. 
respectively. 
Pileus erucible-form, pallid purple, with very short stem or 
sessile, externally tomentose; hymenium luteus (cadmium- 
yellow). — Translation of original description. 
About 2 mm. across. 
On sheaths of plantain leaves. Cuba. C. Wright, 761. 
By the kindness of Dr. Farlow I have been permitted to 
examine a specimen from the type collection. I fail to find any 
fructifieations of a Cyphella present. A leaf-spot fungus has 
caused some dark purple discolorations 1-2 mm. in diameter at 
various points in the surface of the leaf. 
Specimens examined: 
Cuba: C. Wright, ?51, comm. by W. G. Farlow (in Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Herb., 43790). 
EXCLUDED SPECIES 
C. convoluta Cooke, (Fungi of Texas) Ann. М. Y. Acad. Sci. 
I: 179. 1878. 
Type: In Kew Herb. 
“Scattered, cup-shaped, then flattened, 1 to 2 mm. wide, 
margin membranaceous, involute, externally white, internally 
fleshy-red ; spores oblong (.007 mm. long). 
“On trunks. Ravenel (295)."— The original description. 
I examined the type of this fungus, which was collected at 
Houston, Texas, and do not regard it as a Cyphella. The 
“basidia”’ are filiform and only l-spored; spores are abundant, 
hyaline, even, 4-5 x 2-21 u. 
C. Cupressi Schw. ex Fries, Еріст. 567. 1836-1838. 
Merulius Cupressi Schweinitz, Schrift d. Naturforsch. Gesell., 
Leipzig, 1: 92. 1822. 
This species is an insect gall, not a Basidiomycete. Its true 
nature seems to have been first pointed out by Berkeley & 
Curtis, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 3: 207. 1856. 
C. subcyanea Ell. & Ev. Jour. Mye. 2: 37. 1885. 
As this species is not mentioned in Saccardo’s 'Sylloge Fun- 
gorum’ and as the early numbers of the Journal of Mycology аге 
rare, I quote the original description as follows: 
