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Fructifications gregarious, sessile, closely adnate, white, very 

 thin, membranaceous-fleshy, applanate, even, ceraceous, the 

 margin slightly elevated, narrow, white, fibrillose; in section 60 \l 

 thick, not colored, with the hyphae ascending, thin-walled, 2-3 y. 

 in diameter; no gloeocystidia; basidia simple, 12 x 4^ \l, with 

 4 sterigmata; spores becoming pale-colored, even, 6-7 x % l A~ 

 4 |x. 



Fructifications 200-400 y. in diameter. 



On fallen palm leaves. Bermuda. January. 



The small, circular fructifications are rather near together and 

 numerous, 17 having been counted on an area 1 cm. square. 

 They are adnate by the whole under surface, with the hymenium 

 flat and bordered by the narrow, white, fibrillose margin. Most 

 of the spores are hyaline; some, however, are somewhat colored. 

 The aspect is that of a minute Discomycete. 



Specimens examined: 

 Bermuda: H. H. Whetzel, Ajj, type, comm. by R. Thaxter (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 58708), and duplicate from H. H. Whet- 

 zel. 



C. tela (B. & C.) Massee, Jour. Myc. 6: 179. pi. 7,f. 12, 13. 

 1891. 



Peziza tela Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 3: 156. 1875. Tapesia 

 tela (B. & C.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 373. 1889. An Peziza Dae- 

 dalea Schw.? 



Type: in Farlow Herb, and Kew Herb., under the name 

 Peziza tela. 



" Gregarious on a dense white subiculum; cups minute, 150- 

 180 ji diameter, subglobose; mouth at first small, becoming ex- 

 panded, but the acute margin always remains more or less in- 

 curved; externally blackish brown, frosted with glistening crystals 

 of oxalate of lime; hymenium concave, even, naked, blackish 

 brown; basidia clavate, tetrasperous; spores subglobose or broadly 

 pyriform, smooth, pale brown, 7 by 5 pi. 



"On wood. Lower Carolina. (Type in Herb. Berk., Kew, 

 No. 7724). 



"The present species, owing to its dark color and gregarious 

 habit, also being furnished with a dense, white, broadly effused, 



