PaRT 1, 1910] HYPOCREACEAE 47 
1. Broomella chlorina (Cooke) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 558. 1883. 
Hy pocrea chlorina Cooke, Grevillea 7: 49. 1878. 
Stromata discoid, ellipsoid or elongate, soft, brownish externally (at least with age), 
yellowish within ; perithecia immersed or slightly‘ protruding ; asci clavate, 75-80 x 18- 
204; spores partially 2-seriate, ellipsoid, 3-septate, subhyaline, 20-24 & 7-9 u. 
On bark of Hicoria. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Darien, Georgia. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ExsiccaTi: Rav. Fungi Am. 342. 
12. OOMYCES Berk. & Br. Aun. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 7: 185. 1851. 
Coscinaria Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 2: 88. 1886. 
Perithecia few, vertical, contained in a membranaceous sac-like structure; asci cylindric, 
8-spored; spores filiform, continuous, hyaline, as long as the ascus. 
Type species, Sphaeria carneo-alba Libert. 
1. Oomyces Langloisii Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 69. 1892. 
Coscinaria Langloisit Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 2: 88. 1886. 
Stromata tuberculiform, erumpent, fleshy, 0.3-0.5 mm. in diameter, pale-carneous or 
horn-colored when fresh, becoming nearly black when dry, of a rather close membranaceous 
texture on the surface, softer within, surrounded by the ruptured epidermis, convex above; 
perithecia ovoid, minute, with thin, transparent walls, 250-300 X 150-200 # ; asci cylindric, 
150-200 * 5; spores filiform, as long as the ascus, hyaline, continuous, 1 thick. 
On dead stems of Vigna. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Louisiana. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. fl. 17, f. 5-9. 
13. BARYA Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 93. 1869. 
Perithecia fleshy, becoming hard in drying, seated in a loose cottony mycelium bear- 
ing conidia; conidia oblong, obscurely 1-septate, obtuse at the ends ; asci elongate, lanceolate, 
tapering above and below, with a globose apex, 8-spored ; spores filiform, simple, about as 
long as the ascus, hyaline. 
Type species, Barya parasitica Fuckel. 
1. Barya parasitica Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 93. 1869. 
Perithecia gregarious, almost crowded, yellowish-white, surrounded at the base with a 
white mycelial growth giving the whole cluster, which is about 3 or 4mm. in diameter, a deci- 
dedly whitish appearance; perithecia ovoid, tapering into a rather long neck, almost flask- 
shaped, rough, 200 X 325u; asci at first very slender, tapering above, with a knob-like 
structure at the apex, becoming broader as they mature, about 200 X 5-6; spores fili- 
form, nearly as long as the ascus, simple. 
On Bertia moriformis (Todey De-Not., on wood and (decaying material?) on the ground. 
TYPE LOCALITY: em tae 
DISTRIBUTION: New York ; also in Kurope. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Fuckel, Symb. Myc. pi. 4, 18; Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 43: pl. 4, fi 13- 
17; Rab. Krypt. Fl. 2: 84, 7. £4. 
14, TYPHODIUM Link, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 
Phys. 1824: 175. 1826. 
ichloe Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 381. 1849. 
ore it eane, oe 3: 24. 1865 
Stromata effuse, subfleshy, at first *pale becoming bright-orange, forming rings or 
sheaths about the stems of grasses; perithecia immersed or with the necks protruding; 
asci cylindric, 8-spored ; spores filiform, many-septate. 
Type species, Sphaeria iyphina Pers. 
