{Vol. 13 

 330 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



AURICULARIACEAE 

 SEPTOBASIDIUM 



Septobasidium mexicanum Sydow, Ann. Myc. 18: 154. 1920; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 23 : 567. 1925. 



"Omnino resupinatum, matrici arete adhaerens, tenuissimum, 

 centro circiter Y^A mm. crassum, ca. 1-3 cm. longum, 1-2 cm. 

 latum, ferrugineum, centro dein cinereo-ferrugineum, ad am- 

 bitum anguste sed distincte albido-cinereo fimbriatum, leve, haud 

 rimosum; contextus ex hyphis flavo-brunneis crasse tunicatis 

 3-4 \i crassis sparse ramosis remote septatis compositus; basidia 

 non visa. 



"Hab. ad ramos vivos Cupressi spec, Mexico, 1918, leg. Reiche 

 no. 46." 



S. pedicellatum Patouillard, Jour, de Bot. 6: 61. textf. 1892; 

 Burt, Mo. Bot. Gard. Ann. 3: 323. 1916. 



Type: in Museum of Paris. 



Since my account of this species I have studied specimens of 

 both the Cuban collections distributed by C. Wright under the 

 name Thelephora pedicellata and find that the collection, C. 

 Wright y 798 , distributed in Wright, ' Fungi Cubenses Wrightiani ' 

 is in condition to afford the structural details figured by Patouil- 

 lard and therefore must be the type distribution of his species. 



The general description of this species, which could not be 

 given before, is : 



Fructifications resupinate, dry, avellaneous, pulverulent, oc- 

 curring in small, interrupted patches, each about 2-3 mm. in 

 diameter; in structure 500-600 y. thick, colored, stratose, com- 

 posed of 2 strata, each consisting of a hymenial crust supported 

 on pillars or pedicels about 15 ^ in diameter, with their com- 

 ponent hyphae about 3 [l in diameter; probasidia borne at the 

 surface of the hymenial layer. 



On living bushes among, and on, mosses and lichens. Cuba. 



S. pinicola Snell, Mycologia 14: 58. pi 11-13. 1922; Over- 

 holts, Mycologia 16: 233. 1924. 



Type: in Snell Herb., Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., and Forest Path. 

 Herb. 



