1919] 



ZELLER AND DODGE — ARCANGELIELLA, GYMNOMYCES, MACOWANITES 55 



Fructifications subglobose to 



gular, mostly flattened 



above and below, 2.5x1.5x1-5 cm. in diameter in alcohol, 

 drying to 1.4x0.8x0.8 cm., cream-color to yellow ocher in al- 

 cohol, tawny olive when dry; peridium entirely lacking; no 

 stipe on specimens examined ; columella dendroid, resembling 

 much-thickened septa, dividing the gleba 

 into indistinct areas, consisting of quite 



gelatinous, hyaline hyphae, and drying 



to a russet brown; gleba 



am-colo 



to clay 



when dry, fertile to the 



base; cavities small, averaging 2 to the 



mm. in alcohol, globose to 



gul 



septa hyali 



not scissile, 60-80 n 



broad; basidia hyal 



clavate. with 2 



sterigmata, 25-29x9-10 p; sterigmata 

 slender, 6-7 /* long; spores globose to 

 oblong, hyaline, 6-9.6x10-13 p, verru- 

 cose (reticulate-rugose under the oil 

 immersion). 



up 



the ground under leaves of 



Fig. 2 



G. Gardneri. 



Basidia and spores. 

 X750. From type. 



Quercus agrifolia. California. December. 



G. Gardneri differs from G. pallidus and G. seminudus in 

 color and spore characters and in that it has a columella. In 

 spore characters it has nearest affinities with G. pallidus. 



Specimens examined: 

 California: Alameda Co., Berkeley, N. L. Gardner, type (in 

 Univ. Cal. Herb., 376, and in Zeller Herb., 1618). 



EXTRA-LIMITAL SPECIES 



We are including the descript 



of the 



limital 



species to assist in referring material to them should these 

 be found in North America. The descriptions are translations 

 from the original. 



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1. Gymnomyces pallidus Massee & Rodway, Kew Bui. 



Misc. Inf. 1898 : 125. 1898 ; Saccardo & Sydow in Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 16 : 249. 1902. 

 Type : Rodway, 299, in Kew Herb. 



