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 380 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



C. mussecola Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. lo: 337. 



1867. 

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



respectively. 



Pileus crucible-form, pallid purple, with very short stem or 

 sessile, externally tomentose; hymenium luteus (cadmium- 

 yellow). Translation of original description. 



About 2 mm. across. 



On sheaths of plantain leaves. Cuba. C Wright, 751. 



By the kindness of Dr. Farlow I have been permitted to 

 examine a specimen from the type collection. I fail to find any 

 fructifications of a Cyphella present. A leaf -spot fungus has 

 caused some dark purple discolorations 1-2 mm. in diameter at 

 various points in the surface of the leaf. 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 751, comm. by W. G. Farlow (in Mo. Bot. 

 Card. Herb., 43790). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



C. convoluta Cooke, (Fungi of Texas) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 

 1:179.1878. 



Type: In Kew Herb. 



^'Scattered, cup-shaped, then flattened, 1 to 2 mm. wide, 

 margin membranaceous, involute, externally white, internally 

 fleshy-red; spores oblong (.007 mm. long). 



'^On trunks. Ravenel (295).'' The original description. 



I examined the type of this fungus, which was collected at 

 Houston, Texas, and do not regard it as a Cyphella. The 

 '^basidia" are filiform and only 1-spored; spores are abundant, 

 hyahne, even, 4-5 x 2-2 J n. 



C. Cupressi Schw. ex Fries, Epicr. 567. 1836-1838. 



Merulius Cupressi Schweinitz, Schrift d. Naturforsch. Gesell., 

 Leipzig, 1 : 92. 1822. 



This species is an insect gall, not a Basidiomycete. Its true 

 nature seems to have been first pointed out by Berkeley & 

 Curtis, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 3: 207. 1856. 



C. subcyanea Ell. & Ev. Jour. Myc. 2: 37. 1885. 



As this species is not mentioned in Saccardo's ^Sylloge Fun- 

 gorum' and as the early numbers of the Journal of Mycology are 

 rare, I quote the original description as follows : 



