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6 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Specimens examined: 
Mexico: near Sanborn, Oaxaca, C. R. Orcutt, 3336 (in N. Y. 
Bot. Gard. Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 37345). 
Honduras: P. Wilson, 237, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 
Guiana: Spruce, 70 (in Curtis Herb.). 
Bolivia: Mapiri, A. M. Bang, distributed by Columbia College 
Herb., 1479 (in Burt Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 5002). 
CYMATELLA 
Cymatella Patouillard, Soc. Мус. Fr. Bul. 15: 193. pl. 9, f. 4-6. 
1899; басс. Syll. Fung. 16: 49. 1902. 
Marasmioid fungi, minute, stipitate, reviving with moisture; 
pileus lacking a pellicle; hymenium inferior, lacking lamellae, 
even or slightly wavy; spores hyaline. 
Cymatella is а genus of a few species of tropical fungi, segregated 
from Craterellus, with which the specimens agree in the even 
hymenium and consistency, but related to Marasmius in structure 
of the pileus and the reviving of the specimens with moisture. 
The specimens are not notably marasmioid in the recent gathering 
which I have seen and the genus seems unnecessary. 
1. Cymatella minima Patouilard, бос. Мус. Fr. Bul. 15: 
193. pl. 9, f. 6. 1899; Saec. Syll. Fung. 16: 49. 1902. 
Plate 1, fig. 6. 
Pileus plano-convex, reniform, glabrous, pale russet (roux), 
3-4 mm. broad, thin, very slightly fleshy, without a pellicle, the 
margin entire, straight, indented at the base; stem filiform, 
stuffed, 3 mm. long, glabrous, black, marasmioid, a little larger 
towards the base, attached to the pileus ессепітіса йу near the 
indentation; trama composed of loosely arranged, septate, pallid- 
reddish hyphae 3-5 y in diameter; hymenium inferior, dark red, 
even or with few radial, shallow undulations; basidia clavate, 
20-23 X 5-6 u, with 4 sterigmata; по cystidia ; spores hyaline, 
even, ovoid, 3-4 р long. 
decaying bark. Guadeloupe. ; 
I have seen no specimens of C. minima. Тһе figure, after 
Patouillard, somewhat resembles Craterellus Humphreyi, a much | 
larger species, white in color and fleshy. 
