Part 1, 1910] HYPOCREACEAE 37 
Stromata short-stipitate or substipitate, turbinate, 1-2 cm. in diameter, 0.5-1 cm. high, 
convex or often irregularly convolute above, brown externally, whitish within, papillate 
with the necks of the slightly protruding perithecia, often dusted over with a yellowish 
powder, consisting of the exuded spores, rugose, darker below, often blackish; perithecia 
covering the upper surface of the stroma, immersed, with the necks slightly protruding, 
subglobose ; asci cylindric, 75 X54; spores 4-5 in diameter. . 
On old wood. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cayenne. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ohio (and Alabama?); also in South America. 
4. STILBOCREA Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 16: 186. 1901. 
Stromata consisting of a hypocreoid base and several erect, stilbum-like outgrowths, 
fleshy, bright-colored ; perithecia globose or ovoid, immersed or with the necks slightly 
protruding ; asci 8-spored ; spores hyaline or subhyaline, 1-septate, smooth or rough. 
Type species, Stz/bocrea Dussii Pat. 
Spores 10-12 X 7 y. 1. S. hypocreoides. 
Spores 10.5-12.5 x 4.5-5.5 y. 2. S. intermedia. 
1. Stilbocrea hypocreoides (Kalchbr. & Cooke) Seaver, 
Mycologia 2:62. 1910. 
Sphaerostilbe hypocreoides Kalchbr. & Cooke, Grevillea 9: 26. 1880. 
Stromata subpatellate or effuse, 2-5 mm. in diameter, the stilbum-like outgrowths 
clavate, shortly stipitate; conidia ellipsoid, 5 x 2; perithecia immersed in the stroma or 
with the necks slightly prominent; asci cylindric; spores ellipsoid, 1-septate, hyaline, 
10-12 & 7#, becoming slightly roughened externally. 
On naked bark. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa. 
DISTRIBUTION: Louisiana; also in Africa. 
ILLUSTRATION: Grevillea9: pl. 136, f. 25. 
2. Stilbocrea intermedia (Ferd. & Winge) Seaver, 
Mycologia 2:62. 1910. 
?Stilbocrea Dussti Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 16: 186. 1901. 
Sphaerostilbe intermedia Ferd. & Winge, Bot. Tidssk. 29: 12. 1908. 
Nectria macrostoma Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 378. 1868. 
Stilbocrea macrostoma Hohnel, Sitz.-ber. Akad, Wien Math.-Nat. 1181: 1185. 1909. 
Stromata fleshy, patellate or subpatellate, adnate to the substratum or with the margin 
free, when dry pale flesh-colored or yellowish-white, the stilbum-like outgrowths consisting 
of a stalk 1 mm. high and a subglobose head 400-600 » in diameter ; perithecia immersed 
but prominent, orange, ovoid or subglobose, 170-200 u in diameter; asci cylindric, 70-85 
5.5-7.54; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, slightly unequal-sided, minutely roughened, 1-septate, 
scarcely constricted at the septum, 10.5-12.5  4.5-5.5 z#. 
On bark of trees. . 
TYPE LOCALITY: Island of St. Thomas, West Indies. 
DISTRIBUTION: Louisiana and West Indies. . 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Tidssk. 29: pl. 1, 7.5 Mycologia 2: pl. 20, f. 19-20. 
5. CHROMOCREOPSIS Seaver, Mycologia 2: 63. 1910. 
Stromata gregarious or scattered, tubercular and prominent or depressed, from 2 mm. 
to 1 cm. in diameter, bright-colored or dark, approaching black, fleshy or subfieshy, the sur- 
face slightly roughened and dotted with the slightly protruding necks of the perithecia filled 
with dark-colored spores; asci cylindric to clavate, 8-spored; spores ellipsoid to subcuboid, 
simple or septation indistinct, colored, brownish. 
Type species, Wypocrea cubispora Ellis & Holway. 
Stromata tubercular, large, bright-coloted, yellow. 1. C. cubispora. 
Stromata depressed, dark-colored, brown or blackish. : 
Stromata clothed below with hairs. 2. C. hirsuta, 
Stromata naked, blackish. 3. C. bicolor. 
