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8 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Pileus eccentric, rugose, glabrous, rufous, the margin inflexed; 
stem springing from creeping rhizomorphs, thickened below, 
black; hymenial folds thick, venose; basidia simple; spores hyaline, 
even, globose, 4 џ in diameter—only one found and this not 
attached to a basidium; no cystidia. 
Pileus 114-2 mm. in diameter; stem 1-3 mm. long, about 140 
u in diameter. 
On dead ferns. Cuba. 
The fructifications are solitary or in small clusters of up to 5, 
branching from а common point on the bark and bone-brown 
throughout; stem central or eccentric in attachment to the pileus. 
The note on the label as to substratum is ‘‘on stumps.’’ 
Specimens examined: 
Cuba: C. Wright, 32, type (in Curtis Herb.). 
SKEPPERIA 
Skepperia Berkeley, Linn. Soc. Bot. Trans. 22: 130. pl. 25; 
f. A. 1857; басе. Syll. Fung. 6: 603. 1888; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenfam. (1:1**): 127. tert f. 70. A-D. 1898. 
Stem short, lateral, abruptly passing over and confluent for 
some distance with the upper side of the pileus; pileus clavate, 
convolute on each side so as to form a longitudinal groove, 
fibrous within. 
Skepperia convoluta is the type species. 
Skepperia is а genus of tropical fungi of which three species 
have been described; two of these occur in South America and 
one in the West Indies. 
1. Skepperia spathularia (Berk. & Curtis) Patouillard, Soc. 
Myc. Fr. Bul. 15: 194. рі. 9, f. 3. 1899; Sace. Syll. Fung. 16: 189. 
1902. Plate 1, fig. 3. 
Craterellus spathularius Berkeley & Curtis, Linn. бос. Bot. 
Jour. 10: 328. 1868; басе. Syll. Fung. 6: 603. 1888. 
Type: in Curtis Herb. and Kew Herb. probably. 
Fructifications minute, stipitate, everywhere pinkish buff in 
dried condition; pileus oblique, spathulate; stem springing from 
an orbicular base, becoming glabrous; pileus in structure 40-80 y. 
thick, composed of a layer of longitudinally arranged hyphae 
