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BURT THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XII 95 



when there was opportunity and have seen no collections which 

 seem referable here. The translation of the original description 

 follows : 



Minute, straw-colored; pileus cyathiform, decurrent into a 

 stem dilated above, the margin undulate; hymenium glabrous. 



On wet ground amongst moss. Cuba, C. Wright, 533. 



Pileus 1| mm. across; stem 4 mm. high, oblique but not 

 really lateral. Habit of a small stipitate Peziza. Spores glo- 

 bose, 2-2 m according to Massee. 



8. S. quisquiliare (Berk. & Curtis) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. 

 Stip. Stereums, 36. text f. 567. 1913. Plate 2, fig. 6. 



Thelephora quisquiliaris Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 

 10: 329. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 524. 1888. 



Illustrations: Lloyd, loc. cit. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Pileus very small, flabellate or rarely cyathiform, tomentose, 

 shining white; stem lateral, short, thickened above; pileus in 

 section composed of loosely arranged hyphae 3-4 /x in diameter; 

 cystidia hair-like, not incrusted, 6 ju in diameter, protruding up 

 to 40 n beyond the basidia; spores hyaline, even, 4X3-4 /z. 



Pileus 3-5 mm. broad, and 5-7 mm. long including the stem- 

 like base. 



On particles of bark among moss and on mosses. Cuba. 



The fructifications of S. quisquiliare are small and of soft 

 bibulous texture and resemble in aspect those of S. cyphelloides 

 and Cyphella muscigena, but are distinguished from both these 

 species by the hair-like cystidia, of which I noted the presence 

 upon examination of the type but which no longer show well in 

 the permanent microscopical preparation. I had hoped that 

 recent collections would confirm the note as to hair-like cystidia 

 and enable me to be more confident that Thelephora quisquiliaris 

 should not be transferred to Cyphella. 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 519, type (in Curtis Herb.). 



9. S. aurantiacum (Pers.) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 4. Stip. Stere- 

 ums, 22. text f. 538. 1913. Plate 6, fig. 7. 



Thelephora aurantiaca Persoon in Gaudichaud, Voy. Urania 

 Bot. 176. 1827; Fries, Epicr. 536. 1838; R. Soc. Sci. Up- 



