[Vol. 11 

 8 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Pileus eccentric, rugose, glabrous, rufous, the margin inflexed; 

 stem springing from creeping rhizomorphs, thickened below, 

 black; hymenial folds thick, venose; basidia simple; spores hyaline, 

 even, globose, 4 n in diameter only one found and this not 

 attached to a basidium; no cystidia. 



Pileus 1^-2 mm. in diameter; stem 1-3 mm. long, about 140 

 [j. in diameter. 



On dead ferns. Cuba. 



The fructifications are solitary or in small clusters of up to 5, 

 branching from a common point on the bark and bone-brown 

 throughout; stem central or eccentric in attachment to the pileus. 

 The note on the label as to substratum is "on stumps." 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 32, type (in Curtis Herb.). 



SKEPPERIA 



Skepperia Berkeley, Linn. Soc. Bot. Trans. 22: 130. pi 25, 

 f. A. 1857; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 603. 1888; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. (1:1**): 127. text f. 70. A-D. 1898. 



Stem short, lateral, abruptly passing over and confluent for 

 some distance with the upper side of the pileus; pileus clavate, 

 convolute on each side so as to form a longitudinal groove, 

 fibrous within. 



Skepperia convoluta is the type species. 



Skepperia is a genus of tropical fungi of which three species 

 have been described; two of these occur in South America and 

 one in the West Indies. 



1. Skepperia spathularia (Berk. & Curtis) Patouillard, Soc. 

 Myc. Fr. Bui. 15: 194. pi 9,f. 3. 1899; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 189. 

 1902. Plate 1, fig. 3. 



Craterellus spathularius Berkeley & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 Jour. 10: 328. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 603. 1888. 



Type: in Curtis Herb, and Kew Herb, probably. 



Fructifications minute, stipitate, everywhere pinkish buff in 

 dried condition; pileus oblique, spathulate; stem springing from 

 an orbicular base, becoming glabrous; pileus in structure 40-80 n 

 thick, composed of a layer of longitudinally arranged hyphae 



