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BURT THELEPHORACEiE OF NORTH AMERICA. Ill 379 



C. trachychaeta Ell. & Ev. Jour. Myc. 4: 73. 1888. 



Type: in New York Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Fructifications gregarious, sessile by a narrow base, white, 

 cup-shaped, clothed outside with appressed hairs; hairs subhy- 

 aline, very rough, with a smooth tapering tip 12-15 fi long; hairs 

 paler around the base of the fructification and coarsely roughened 

 by irregularly shaped tubercles, some of which are prolonged 

 into short spines; hymenium nearly white with a slight tinge of 

 slate color; basidia and spores could not be well made out, but 

 the latter are apparently very minute. 



Fructifications 300-400ai high and broad, occasionally 1 mm. 

 broad and with the margin distinctly lobed. 



On fallen leaves of Quercus, Louisiana. July. 



The above description is arranged from that originally pub- 

 lished. I am under obligation to Dr. Murrill for recently send- 

 ing to me a portion of the type for study, but the specimen 

 proves too immature to show whether this species is a basidio- 

 mycete. The hymenium of this specimen is now pale olive- 

 buff; the hairs are 50-75 x 6 /i, heavily encrusted except near the 

 tips, but I failed to find any hairs roughened by tubercles or 

 bearing spines. 



Specimens examined: 

 Louisiana: A. B. Langlois, 14^4, type (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



C. Bananae Cooke, Grevillea 6: 132. 1878. 



Type : probably in Kew Herb. 



Fructifications fuliginous or wood-brown, finger-shaped, 

 pendulous-extended behind, glabrous, the margin entire; hy- 

 menium white, rugose; spores linear, obtuse, curved, 10-12 x 

 2i /x. Translation of original description. 



On dead leaves of Musa, Gainesville, Florida. Ravenel, 



C. filicicola Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 2: 5. 1873. 



Type: type and cotype probably in Kew Herb, and Curtis 

 Herb, respectively. 



Stem very short ; cups irregular, sometimes oblique, externally 

 very obscurely tomentose, umber. 



On dead fern. North Carolina. Curtis Herb., 4934, type. 



The above contains all the items of the original description; I 

 overlooked this species when studying in Curtis Herb, and in 

 Kew Herb. 



