CYTTARIA HARIOTIL This is a white species, very similar 

 in appearance to the New Zealand species. It was collected by 

 Monsieur Hariot at Cape Horn, and described and figured by Fischer 

 from specimens he saw in the Museum at Paris. It is evidently rare. 

 The difference between it and Cyttaria Gunnii appears to me only a 

 spore difference. The spores are cuboid, 10 mic. in diameter. The 

 figure was reproduced in Engler & Prantl. We failed to note the 

 specimens when we were in Paris. 



CYTTARIA ESPINOSAE (Fig. 995). In the specimens from 

 Marcial R. Espinosa, we find a species quite different from those 

 heretofore known. The others are hard and heavy when dry, with 

 thick flesh and distant pores and thick dissepiments. This is light 

 and thin, with contiguous pores and very thin dissepiments. We do 

 not know the color of the fresh specimens, but it soaks out light pink, 

 and was probably orange when fresh. The coloring matter is contained 

 only in the epidermal cells. In size and shape it is similar to the 

 others, globose, with a short, tapering base. The pores are contigu- 

 ous, with very thin walls in which feature it differs from all other 

 species. A palisade layer of asci and paraphyses line the sides of the 



Fig. 995. 



pores, but not the bottom of the tubes. The interior of these speci- 

 mens is filled with a light, pithy substance, and it is the only species 

 that we have examined where the pith is found in old specimens. All 

 others we have seen are hollow, though, no doubt, pithy when young. 

 The spores are hyaline, elliptical, smooth, and in this collection 

 probably immature. Those I found were about 5x8 mic. I presume 

 the specimens were collected by Mr. Espinosa in the vicinity of 

 Santiago, Chile. 



Fig. 996. 



Cyttaria Hooke 



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