GAUTIERIA IN NORTH AMERICA! 
SANFORD M. ZELLER 
Visiting Fellow in the Henry Shaw School of Botany of Washington University 
np CARROLL W. DODGE 
Rufus J. Lackland pis in the Henry vnd School of Botany of 
Washington Universi 
GAUTIERIA 
Gautieria Vittadini, Monogr. Tuberac. 25-27. 1831; Klotzsch 
in Dietr. Fl. Boruss. (Fl. Kónigr. Preuss.) 7: No. 764. pl. 464. 
1839; Tulasne, Fung. Hypog. 62-63. 1851; Zobel in Corda, 
Icon. Fung. 6:33-34. 1854; Winter in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. 
Deutschl. ed. 2, 1: 873-874. 1884; DeToni in Sace. Syll. Fung. 
7:177-179. 1888; Hesse, Нуров. Deutschl. 1: 105-110. 1891. 
—Gautiera Endlicher, Gen. Pl. 30. 1836-1840; Corda, Anleit. 
2. Stud. Мус. 114. 1842; Icon. Fung. 5: 28. 1842; Rabenhorst, 
Deutschl. Krypt.-Fl. 1: 252. 1844; Fries, Summa Veg. Seand. 
435. 1849.—Not Gautiera Rafinesque, Med. Е. 1 : 202. 1828. 
The type species of the genus is Gautieria morchelliformis 
Vittadini. 
Fructifications globose to somewhat irregular, with a simple 
or branched rhizomorph; columella variable in size and 
shape; peridium thin, fugacious; gleba white at first, be- 
coming colored by the masses of spores; cavities variable in 
size, often elongated, labyrinthiform; septa homogeneous, 
composed of closely interwoven, parallel hyphae, not con- 
spicuously gelatinized at maturity; basidia clavate, usually 
2-spored, with long filiform sterigmata; spores ellipsoidal to 
citriform, unicellular, with longitudinal thickenings of the 
cell wall. 
Although Gautieria was originally described as lacking а 
peridium, it has been reported? to have one in its early stages 
of development. For this reason we are inclined to consider 
Chamonixia Rolland as synonymous with Gautieria, but since 
1 Issued May 24, 1918. 
С C. J. Icones Fungorum 6: 33. TE Hesse, R. Die Hypogaeen 
Deutschlands 1: see p. 106. 1891; Fitzpatrick, H. M. A comparative study of 
the Lr of the piu usd in Phallogaster, "Hysterangium, and Gautieria. 
Ann, Myc. : 119-149, 7. f. 1-4. 1913. 
ANN. Mo. BoT. GARD., VOL. 5, 1918 (133) 
