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CHROMOGENIC FUNGI WHICH DISCOLOR WOOD. 71 
or gray at the apex, but smooth throughout measuring 
1 mm. to 1.7 mm. in length by 15» to 25 in diameter 
and surmounted when mature by a terminal fringe of 
bristles 15 to 254 in length and tapering from 4p at the 
base to lp at the apex, being hyaline throughout (pl. 3, f. 
3). The asci are clavate(?), bearing biseriate spores 
which are hyaline, curved or straight, elliptic to cylindri- 
cal, and which are ejected in the open air ina globular mass, 
at the terminus of the beak. 
Since writing the above, co-type material of C’. echinella 
inthe herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden has been 
examined. ‘The perithecia are probably as described by 
Ellis and Everhart,* but they have persistent asci which 
contain brown two-celled ascospores, placing the fungus in 
the specimen under another genus. This indicates that at 
least a mistake was made in a portion of the material sent 
out as type specimens if not in the description. 
Ceratostomella capillifera n. sp. 
The wood of Liquidambar Styraciflua L. is an excellent 
pabulum for a large number of fungi, and lumber made 
from this tree, when in piles, soon becomes thoroughly 
stained either blue or black by the growth of a number of 
species of wood-discoloring fungi. Among these was 
found quite commonly a species of Ceratostomella which 
is closely related to C. pilifera, but differs in the length 
of the beaked ostielum, the length of the terminal bristles 
and the shape and size of the conidia and ascospores. 
The following characters obtain with pure cultures : — 
MYCELIUM. 
Cultures of either conidia or ascospores sown on pine- 
decoation agar germinate quickly, forming a diffuse, white, 
hyaline, septate mycelium, which in less than two days 
* Ellis, J. B. and Everhart, B. M. J. c. 
