Type and specimen examined: New Zealand: Mt. Egmont, 2700 ft., Taranaki District, Feb. 1952. Coll. by µ H. Cunningham. (NZPD).

Receptacles scattered, waxy, fragile, 0,2-0,5 mm. in diameter, attached by a narrow base, cupulate or as often pendant; exterior white, drying cream, tomentum of long, unbranched, aseptate hyphae, tortuous, 3 µ diameter, finely crystal coated, tapering gradually to long-acuminate apices; margin inturned, lacerate when old; hymenial surface concave, even, pallid buff or cream; context white, to 40 µ thick, base to 250 µ of parallel hyphae radiately arranged; generative hyphae to 2,5 µ in diameter, wall 0,25 µ thick, sparsely branched, septate; hymenial layer to 35 µ deep, paraphyses subclavate; basidia subclavate, 12-16 x 7- 8 µ 4-sterigmate ; spores broadly fusiform or lemon-shaped, apiculate, 6-9 x 4,5-5,5 µ smooth, hyaline.

Habitat: On Pseudopanax crassifolium.

The above description was taken from Cunningham (1953). The writer would add that the surface hairs are 150-250 X 5-6 µ arising directly from the context hyphae without apparent septation; all hyphae and the base of the basidia possess clamps.

Type and specimen examined: New Zealand: Mt. Egmont, 4000 ft., Taranaki District. J. M. Dingley, Apr. 1946. (NZPD).

Receptacles scattered, membranous, brittle, 0,2-1,0 mm. in diameter, attached by a short narrow base, at first subglobose, becoming pezizoid; exterior white, covered with a dense tomentum of fine hairs curved over the hymenium, 5-6 µ in diameter, wall 1 µ thick, finely crystal coated with occasional inflated areas at or near the apex; magin inturned, fimbriate; hymenium surface concave, white becoming cream; context white, to 100 µ thick, to 250 µ at the base of radiately arranged compact parallel hyphae, outer few layers tinted; generative hyphae to 4 µ in diameter, wall 0,25 µ thick, branched, septate; hymenial layer to 60 µ deep, paraphyses filiform, numerous, apically acuminate; basidia subclavate. 40-50x 10-12 µ 2-4-spored; spores pyriform, flask-shaped or tear-shaped, base rounded, apex long-acuminate, 15-20 x 9-11 µ smooth, hyaline.

Habitat: On Hebe salicifolia.

The above description was taken from Cunningham (1953). The writer would add that this is an elaboration on the dochmiosporous type of spore with slightly larger spores than L. alboviolascens, but with the same type of surface hairs and receptacles. Subhymenial clamps are abundant in the portion of the type sent by Dr. Cunningham. This species is slightly larger in all respects than L. turbinata.

Type and specimen examined: New Zealand: Mt. Tongariro, 2500 ft., Auckland District. Mar. 1952. Collected by G. H. Cunningham. (NZPD).

Receptacles scattered, waxy, brittle, cupulate, 0,5-0,75 mm. in diameter, attached by a narrow base; exterior white, tomentum composed of tortuous aseptate thick-walled branched hyphae, 5 µ in diameter, with lumen almost obliterated, coated with coarse deciduous crystals, terminating in long, gradually tapering spirally coiled naked apices; margins inturned, lacerate when old; hymenial surface concave, buff or honey-colored; context white, to 50 µ thick, to 500 µ at the base, of parallel radiately arranged hyphae; generative hyphae to 3,5 µ in diameter, wall 0,25 µ thick, sparsely branched, septate; hymenial layer to 40 µ deep, paraphyses subclavate ; basidia subclavate, 16-20 x 5-6 µ, 4-sterigmate; spores fusiform-elliptical, apex rounded, base pointed and apiculate, 7-8 x 3-3,5 µ, smooth, hyaline.

Habitat: On Phyllocladus trichomanoides.

The above description was taken from Cunningham (1953). The writer would add that the basidia have basal clamps and some context hyphae are clamped. The surface hairs reach 150 µ long with the outer third of the whiplash type described above.

Type and specimen examined: New Zealand: Invercargill, Otago. Oct. 1950. Collected by W. Faithful. (NZPD).

Receptacles scattered, membranous, waxy, fragile, 0,1-0,5 mm. in diameter, attached by a brief stem-like base, at first subglobose becoming urecolate or discoid; exterior dingy white, covered with a scanty tomentum, hairs 4-6 µ in diameter, wall 0,5 µ thick, hyaline, finely crystal coated; margin inturned, fimbriate; hymenial surface slightly concave, white or cream; context white, to 80 µ thick, to 250 µ at the base, of radiately arranged mainly parallel hyphae; generative hyphae 5-6 µ in diameter, wall 0,25 µ thick, branched, septate, hyaline; hymenial layer to 80 µ deep, paraphyses filiform, somewhat scanty, apices acuminate; basidia clavate, some almost capitate, 60-80 x 16-20 µ 4-spored; spores turbinate, 14-16 x 10-12 µ, smooth, hyaline.

Habitat: On Olearia paniculata.

The above description was taken from Cunningham (1953). The writer found abundant surface hairs 200-250 µ long, 7,2-9,0 µ in diameter, covered with fine crystalline material; the basidia in the portion of the type kindly loaned by Dr. Cunningham measured 50-55 x 7,2-9,0 µ. The spores measured 18 x 12,5 µ and the basidia have clamps at the base. The paraphyses-like bodies were 5-6 µ in diameter. In this and in L. pyriforma these bodies are either young basidia or cystidioles.

Type specimens examined
Phaeosolenia platensis Speg. : Argentina: La Plata, on Manihot cartagenensis. Apr. 9, 1902. Coll. C. Spegazzini (LBS, 15915). Solenia villosa var. sub-ochracea Speg.: Argentina: Misiones, San Pedro, on Ilex paraguayensis. Feb. 1907. Coll. C. Spegazzini. (LBS 25877).
Solenia pircuniae Speg. : Argentina: Buenos Aires, San Jose de Flores, on Pircunia dioica, June 16. 1881. Coll. C. Spegazzini. (LPS 25874).
Cyphella endophila Ces.: Italy: In horte bot. Neapolitano. Coll. Cesati. In Rabenhorst, Fungi Europaei 1513 (NY, BD).
Cyphella versicolor Berk. & Br.: Ceylon: Central Province. No. 105, Nov. 1867. L.H.K.T. (K).
Solenia euphorbiaecola Pat.: Ecuador: Pululahua, on bark of Euphorbia sp. May 1892. Coll. Lagerheim. (FH).
Cyphella fraxinicola Berk. & Br.: England: C.E. Broome, on ash poles. Dec. 20, 1873. (K).
Cyphella pruinosa Berk. & Br.: Ceylon: Peradeniya. "81". (K). Cyphella tabacina Cke. & Phill. : Union of South Africa: Natal, Inanda. On bark. Coll. J. Medley Wood 524, Feb. 1881. (PRE 11146, K). Cyphella fulvo-disca Cke. & Mass.: Madagascar: Ft. Dauphin. Coll. Scott-Elliot. (NY).
Cyphella variolosa Kalchbr. "cotype" : Union of South Africa: Boschberg Mts., Somerset Strand, Cape Province. Coll. "in ligno" by MacOwan 1381. (PRE 20939, S.)
Cyphella holstii P. Henn., Latinda, Usumbara, Africa. July 1893. C. Holst. (S).
Specimens examined from: England (5), France (2), Italy (5), Germany (2), Africa (4), Madagascar (2), Southern Nigeria (1), Uganda (2), Union of South Africa (5), Ceylon (13), French Indo-China (1), Malaya (1), Philippine Islands (12), Bonin Island (1), Revillagigedo Islands (2), Argentina (6), Brazil (25), British Guiana (2), Colombia (1), Ecuador (5), Paraguay (4), Venezuela (2), British West Indies (1), Cuba (1), Ontario (1), Colorado (3), Delaware (1), Florida (3), Maine (2), Massachusetts (1), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina (1). Italian material of P. endophila has been well described and illustrated by Mattirolo (1887).

Receptacles white to greyish with brownish to vinaceous undertones, 0,1-1,5 mm. long, cylindric, sessile to short-stipitate, cupshaped to urceolate or tubular, 0,1-0,7 mm. in diameter when dry, to 2 mm. in diameter when fresh, gregarious to scattered; with an evanescent, brown subiculum; context hyphae 1,5-3 µ in diameter, with clamp connections, producing two palisades both arising directly from the context hyphae ; surface hairs produced in one palisade, brown, stiff, branched below, straight above, perpendicular to the surface or pointed upward and incurved toward the cup margin, covering the hymenium when dry, incrusted with crystals up to 2 µ long by 1 µ in diameter, easily removed in mounting, revealing the thin- to thick-walled, non-septate, brown hairs 20-100-(250) x 3,5-7 µ, with pointed tips; hymenium produced as the internal palisade, composed only of tightly packed basidia; basidia (18)-23-40 x 4-(7,5)-9 µ 4-sterigmate, with clamps at the base; spores pale yellow brown to brown, smooth, apiculate, ovate to subglobose, ellipsoid or almond-shaped or lemon-shaped, flattened on one side (but not strongly so), (5)-8,5-10,5-(11) x (3)-4,5-5,5-(7,0) µ, or 3-6 µ in diameter.

Habitat: On dead materials of such plants as: Alangium bignoniaefolium, Arenya saccharifolia, Astonia scholaris, Chusquea sp., Discoxylum hexandrum, Euphorbia sp., Ficus sp., F. hawili, Erythrina tomentosa, Fraxinus sp., F. excelsior, Hibiscus sp., Ilex paraguayensis, Manihot utilissima, M. caragenensis, Paromynia, Pelargonium sp., Phytolacca dioica, Pircunia dioica, Populus angustifolia, P. deltoides, Robinia pseudacacia, Schefflera odorata, Schyzolobium sp., Tectona grandis, Theobroma cacao, Vitis sp.

It is possible that Cyphella microthele Speg. belongs in this complex. The type was collected in Argentina at Entre Rios in Jan. 1902 by C. Spegazzini. It was found on Chloris distichophylla. Spegazzini's notes indicate that the spores were smooth, fulvous, 5-6 x 5 µ, produced on basidia 15-18 x 6-7 µ with surface hairs hyaline to fulvous, incrusted, 50-150 x 5-6 µ. No material was found in the type packet loaned by Dr. Lindquist of (LPS) so that the exact position of this species must remain uncertain.
The combination Phaeocarpus hibisci Pat. appears on herbarium packets (FH) but has not been found in published form.
Cyphella variolosa Kalchbr. may be distinguished from P. densa by the ovate rather than almond-shaped spores which are slightly larger, and the surface hairs which form a rather regular palisade and which are granule-incrusted but whose granules are not present in such large quantities as in P. densa. Also clamps are present at the base of many of the surface hairs. However, these differences are rather superficial and non-critical so that specimens assigned to this species are now added to P. densa.

Stigmatolemma (Kalchbr.) W. B. Cooke, Mycologia, 1. c. Characters as given in 1957.

Stigmatolemma huia (G. H. Cunn.) comb. nov.

= Porotheleum hia (G. H. Cunn.) W. B. Cooke, Mycologia, l. c.