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390 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
bury, Vt., finding also specimens associated with the ascosporic 
stage. In 1899, I compared my material with the type of 
Dacryopsis Ellisiana in Kew Herb., making preparations of the 
latter, which I still have, and studying them critically until 
convinced that no basidia were present and that my Middle- 
bury gatherings agreed in all respects with the type. With re- 
gard to the final paragraph of Professor Durand's note to which 
reference is made above, it was published without my knowledge 
and I have never concurred in it. I studied the type, of which 
there is without doubt duplieate material in N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
Herb.; as a Dacryopsis, Coryne Ellisii Berk. is merely a myth 
of mycology. 
AURICULARIACEAE 
On a log of decayed balsa wood, Ochroma lagopus, received 
from Costa Rica, there developed in Dr. von Schrenk’s rotting 
pit in the Missouri Botanical Garden, during April and May, 11 
fructifications in various stages of development, of a tropical 
species of Auricularia, which seems undescribed, although speci- 
mens of the same species were collected in Cuba about 65 years 
ago and distributed by Wright under the name Hirneola auri- 
formis (Schw.) Fr., from authentic specimens of which they 
certainly differ as noted by Farlow. 
The log on which the present gathering grew was decorticated, 
badly decayed, cylindric, 30 cm. in diameter by 10 em. long, 
and stood erect on one end on the moist material of the rotting 
pit like a stump in position in the ground. Most of the first 
fructifications were on the least-illuminated side of the log, 
where they appeared at first as velvety, tubercular outgrowths 
2 mm. long and 1 mm. in diameter, with obtuse ends, standing 
out perpendicularly from the side of the log. When 5 mm. 
long, the fructifications were still cylindric but curving down- 
ward at an angle of 45 degrees with the log; when 1-11% em. 
long the free end of the fructification assumed the form of a 
shallow cup with the concave surface facing the ground and 
developing an inferior hymenium, pl. 3, fig. 6. In this stage 
the supporting stem was attached to the center or very near 
! Farlow, W. G. Bibliog. Index N. Am. Fungi 1: 305. 1905. 
