1920] 
BURT—THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 95 
when there was opportunity and have seen no collections which 
seem referable here. The translation of the original description 
follows: 
Minute, straw-colored; pileus cyathiform, decurrent into a 
stem dilated above, the margin undulate; hymenium glabrous. 
On wet ground amongst moss. Cuba, C. Wright, 533. 
Pileus 13 mm. across; stem 4 mm. high, oblique .but not 
really lateral. Habit of a small stipitate Peziza. Spores glo- 
bose, 2-23 according to Massee. 
8. S. quisquiliare (Berk. & Curtis) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4 
Stip. Stereums, 36. text f. 567. 1913. Plate 2, fig. 6. 
Thelephora quisquiliaris Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 
10: 329. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 524. 1888. 
Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 
Type: in Kew Herb. and Curtis Herb. 
Pileus very small, flabellate or rarely cyathiform, tomentose, 
shining white; stem lateral, short, thickened above; pileus in 
section composed of loosely arranged hyphae 3-4 y in diameter; 
cystidia hair-like, not incrusted, 6 y in diameter, protruding up 
to 40 u beyond the basidia; spores hyaline, even, 43-4 y. 
Pileus 3-5 mm. broad, and 5-7 mm. long including the stem- 
like base. 
On particles of bark among moss and on mosses. Cuba. 
The fructifications of S. quisquiliare are small and of soft 
bibulous texture and resemble in aspect those of S. cyphelloides 
and Cyphella muscigena, but are distinguished from both these 
species by the hair-like cystidia, of which I noted the presence 
upon examination of the type but which no longer show well in 
the permanent microscopical preparation. I had hoped that 
recent collections would confirm the note as to hair-like cystidia 
and enable me to be more confident that Thelephora quisquiliaris 
should not be transferred to Cyphella. 
Specimens examined: 
Cuba: C. Wright, 519, type (in Curtis Herb.). 
g. S. aurantiacum (Pers.) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stere- 
ums, 22. text f. 538. 1913 Plate 6, fig. 7. 
Thelephora aurantiaca Perhon in Gaudichaud, Voy. Urania 
Bot. 176. 1827; Fries, Epicr. 536. 1838; R. Soc. Sci. Up- 
