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140 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Specimens examined: 
California: Mariposa County, Big Meadow, W. A. Setchell 
(in Univ. Cal. Herb., 542, Zeller Herb., 1454, and Dodge 
Herb., 857) ; Big Tree Grove, H. W. Harkness, 113 [3543], 
type (in Dudley Herb. at Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. and 
N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
EXTRA-LIMITAL AND DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
The following are deseriptions of species not yet found in 
North America, but are included in order to assist in referring 
material to them in ease they should be discovered later, as 
individual species are found to have a wide range. The de- 
scriptions are either copies or translations of the original 
descriptions, since no material here has been studied. Such 
notes are appended to them as seemed justified by a careful 
study of the original text and illustrations. 
1. Chamonixia caespitosa Rolland, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bull. 15: 
76. 1899; Saccardo and Sydow in Saec. Syll. Fung. 16 : 251. 
1902. 
Illustrations: Rolland, Soc. Myce. Fr. Bull. 15: pl. 6. f. 3. 
Type: location unknown to us. 
Globose mass of several fructifications, pressed against each other 
like the carpels of an orange but easily separable, covered by a 
membranous peridium, floccose-silky, white, bluing rapidly to the 
touch. The peridium surrounds the outside of the fructification 
but not where the several fructifications come together. Gleba 
fleshy, flesh-colored, of round or oval cavities, no sterile portions; 
basidia 2-spored; spores brown, ellipsoidal, longitudinally striate, 
2012 y, guttulate. Floccose, radicating mycelium below, odorless. 
In jovis -section the peridium shows distinc tly, being blue where eut. 
mong mosses clothing the base of an old tree (Abies excelsa), 
Bois du Bouchet near Chamonix, Sept. 15, Rolland 
—Rolland. 
This species seems to be a Gautieria, although we prefer 
not to make the transfer until we have seen the type. It 
seems quite possible that the columella is more strongly de- 
veloped in this species, running all the way through the fructi- 
fieation and dividing the gleba into several distinet portions, 
as there is a tendency to do in G. plumbea. The spore color 
seems to relate it to the latter species if the colors of the 
illustration are to be trusted. 
