Part 1, 1910] HYPOCREACEAE 35 
as minute, pale-yellow specks ; asci cylindric to subclavate, 20-22 3.5 #, sessile; spores 
2-seriate, 1-1.5 in diameter. 
On Corticium scutellare Berk. & Curt., on dead branches of Magnolia and Quercus. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ellis & Ev. N. Am, Pyrenom. p/. 11, f. 10, 11. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES 
Hypocrea atramentosa Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 377. 1868. This is 
Dothichloe atramentosa (Berk. & Curt.) Atk. 
Hypocrea cervina Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 376. 1868. 
fypocrea fibula De-Not. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 2: 50. 1844. 
flypocrea laetior Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 376. 1868, 
Hypocrea maculaeformis Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 376. 1868. 
Hypocrea molliuscula (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 536. 1883. Sphaeria molliuscula 
Schw.; Fries, Elench. Fung. 2: 66. 1828. 
HHypocrea ochroleuca Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 14. 1875. 
Hypocrea parasitans Berk, & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 15. 1875. Nota Alypocrea. 
Hypocrea Ravenelti Berk. Grevillea 4: 14. 1875. A Melogramma. 
Hypocrea Richardsoni Berk. & Mont.; Berk. Grevillea4: 14. 1875. Said to bea 
Corticium. 
Hypocrea solenostoma Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 14. 1875. 
flypocrea subviridis Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 15. 1875. 
Hypocrea virginiensis Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1893: 442. 1894. A discomycete. 
HHypocvea viridans Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 376. 1868. 
Hypocrea viridi-rufa Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 14. 1875. A Aypoxylon. 
Lypocrea armeniaca Berk. & Curt., Hypocrea insignis Berk. & Curt., Hypocrea poly- 
poroidea Berk. & Curt., Hypocrea saccharina Berk. & Curt. and Hypocrea sterilior (Schw.) 
(Sphaeria sterilior Schw.) were apparently based on imperfectly developed specimens. 
Zz. CHROMOCREA Seaver, Mycologia 2: 58. 1910. 
Stromata patellate or subpatellate, whitish, yellowish, or reddish to greenish-black, 
more or less variable in a given species, fleshy ; perithecia entirely immersed with necks 
only slightly prominent; asci cylindric, becoming 16-spored by the separation of each origi- 
nal spore into 2 subglobose cells ; spores colored, greenish or brownish. 
Type species, Sphaeria gelatinosa Tode. 
Stromata yellowish to greenish-black. : ; 
Stromata sessile, yellowish to green, then greenish-black. 1. C. gelatinosa. 
Stromata substipitate, yellow, not becoming green. 2. C. substipitata, 
Stromata brick-red, entirely sessile. 3. C. ceramtca. 
1. Chromocrea gelatinosa (Tode) Seaver, Mycologia 2: 58. 1910. 
Sphaeria gelatinosa Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: 48. 1791. 
Hypocrea gelatinosa Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 383. 1849. 
? Hypocrea chlorospora Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 14. 1875. 
? Hypocrea chromosperma Cooke & Peck ; Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 29: 57, 1878. 
Hypocrea viridis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31: 49. 1879. 
Stromata patellate or subpatellate, fleshy, soft, becoming contracted and wrinkled whem 
dry, at first bright lemon-yellow or yellowish-white becoming punctate with greenish dots, 
the necks of the perithecia filled with dark-colored spores, the entire stroma becoming 
darker with age, finally greenish or greenish-black, 1-4 mm. in diameter ; perithecia entirely 
immersed with the necks slightly protruding and becoming rather prominent in dried 
specimens; asci cylindric; spores at first green, becoming brown, 5 in diameter. 
On decaying wood of various kinds, 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mecklenburg, Germany. ; : ; 
DISTRIBUTION : Maine to New Jersey and Wisconsin ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION : Tode, Fungi Meckl. pi. 16, f. 123. 
