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 378 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Fructifications about 1 mm. broad. 



On dead stems of ferns, Osmunda cinnamomea. New York. 

 September. 



The type specimens of this species are immature. I could 

 make out neither distinct asci nor basidia in the hymenium. 

 In a crushed preparation I found one spore, colorless, even, 

 pointed at one end, 6 x 2J ^t. It may have been a basidiospore 

 of this species or it may have been a foreign spore. 



Specimens examined: 

 New York: Forestburgh, C. H. Peck, type (in Coll. N. Y. 

 State). 



C. perexigua Sacc. Michelia 2 : 136. 1880. 



Cups bell-shaped, very short and obliquely stipitate, small, 

 J-f mm. long, thin-membranaceous, internally and externally 

 whitish cinereous, externally minutely puberulent; spores not 

 seen. Appears related to C. erucceformis and cupuliformis but 

 is one-third as large. . . . On decorticated branches. 

 South Carolina. Ravenel. Translation of original description. 



I have not seen the type of C. perexigua, which is probably in 

 Saccardo Herb. As basidia and basidiospores have not been 

 found for American specimens, it is uncertain whether this 

 species is a Cyphella. Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung. 19. /. 34- 

 1883, referred to C. perexigua a species of Cyphella which he 

 collected at Poligny, France, but that reference is doubtful in 

 the absence of knowledge in regard to basidia and basidiospores 

 for American specimens. 



C. pezizoides Zopf, in Morgan, (Myc. Fl. Miami Val.) Jour. 

 Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. lo: 202. 1888. 



Type: probably in the State Univ. of Iowa Herb. 



^'Fructifications membranaceous, nearly sessile, globose then 

 cup-shaped, clothed externally with long erect white hairs. 

 Hymenium even, brownish; spores obovate, .012-.013 mm. in 

 length. 



''On old herbaceous stems; not common, cupule pezizoid, 

 scarcely pedicillate, about half a line in diameter. The long 

 hairs are erect and connivent over the hymenium; they are hya- 

 line and incrusted with crystals of calcium oxalate." 



Original description. 



The type is not accessible at present. 



