[Vol. 2 



744 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



of our five, only one species, EicMeriella Leveilliana, ranges 

 through the eastern United States; E. spinulosa occurs in 

 both Europe and North America. 



Key to the Species 



Fructifications gray, small, ^-2 mm. long, y 2 -l mm. broad, with habit of 



Cyphella 1. E. Schrenkii 



Fructifications the color of raspberries and cream, and peltate at first, 1-5 



cm. long, y % — 1 % cm. broad 2. E. Leveilliana 



Fructifications ochraceous buff, 200-300 n thick ; hymenium even ; known from 



Cuba and Brazil 3. E. alliciens 



Fructifications wood-brown, with whitish margin; hymenium dry, with 



tubercules like liadulum ,\. E. spinulosa 



Fructification white at first, then clay-color, tomentose, soft and spongy, 



Va cm. thick; hymenium gelatinous; known from Jamaica only 



5. E. gelatinosa 



1. Eichleriella Schrenkii Burt, n. sp. Plate 27, fig. 8. 



Type : in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb, and in Farlow Herb. 



Fructifications gregarious, coriaceous, sessile, pezizoid, 

 oblong or rotund, margin free and strongly inrolled, pubes- 

 cent, smoke-gray; hymenium concave, pale smoke-gray to 

 pallid neutral gray; basidia longitudinally septate, pyriform, 

 22 X 11 /* ; spores white in collection on slide, simple, curved, 

 pointed at base, 12-19 X 6-7 1 n. 



Fructifications ^-2 mm. long, |-1 mm. broad, \ mm. thick. 



On bark of dead limbs of Prosopis (mesquite). San 

 Antonio, Texas. February. 



The general habit of this fungus resembles that of very 

 small specimens of Corticium Oakesii, of large species of Cen- 

 angium, or of a sessile Cyphella; from all of which Eichleri- 

 ella Schrenkii is easily separated by its longitudinally septate 

 basidia which show clearly in sectional preparations. The 

 fructifications are much smaller than those of any other 

 species of this genus heretofore described. 



Specimens examined: 

 Texas : San Antonio, H. von Schrenk, type (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 42579), and also (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 42580). 



2. E. Leveilliana (Berk. & Curtis) Burt, n. comb. 



Plate 27, fig. 9. 

 Corticium Leveillianum Berk. & Curtis, Hooker's Jour. 



