56 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 3 
Sclerotia consisting of a more or less compact fungous tissue formed in the stems or 
inflorescence of plants; stromata arising from the sclerotium, stipitate and capitate or ses- 
sile, separated from the sclerotium by a constriction; perithecia immersed in the stroma; 
asci 8-spored; spores filiform, nearly as long as the ascus. 
Type species, Balansia claviceps Speg. 
1. Balansia Hypoxylon (Peck) Atk. Jour. Myc. 11: 254. 1905. 
? Ephelis mexicana Fries; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 353. 1868. 
LEpichloe Hypoxylon Peck, Ann, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 27: 108. 1875. 
Hypocrella Hypoxylon Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 581. 1883. 
? Ephelis borealis Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 1: 86. 1885. 
Dothichloe Hypoxyton Atk. Bull. Torrey Club 21: 223. 1894. 
Sclerotia formed in the fruiting axes of the host, curved and irregular, 1 cm. or more 
in length, grayish or blackish; stromata black, prominent, pulvinate or subhemispheric, 
1-5 mm. in diameter, several springing from the same sclerotium, minutely roughened by 
the slightly protruding perithecia; perithecia immersed ; asci cylindric, with a pedicel at 
the base, as much as 20 win length; spores 1 » thick, at maturity breaking into segments 
3-4 # long. 
On Danthonia spicata (L.) Beauv., and other grasses. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sandlake, New York. 
DISTRIBUTION : Maine to South Carolina, Texas, and Iowa. 
ILLUSTRATION : Jour. Myc. 11: fl. 81, 82, 5? 
EXSICCATI: Barth. Fungi Columb. 3027. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Balansia discoidea P. Henn. Hedwigia Beibl. 39: 77. 1900. Doubtfully reported for 
North America. 
DOUBTFUL GENERA 
GLAZIELLA Berk. in Warming, Vidensk. Meddel. 1879-80: 31. 1879. 
“‘ Stroma subglobosum laeticolor; perithecia pallida, gelatina hyalina repleta.’’ Type 
species, Glaziella vesiculosa Berk. 
GLAZIELLA AURANTIACA (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 582. 1883. 
Aylaria aurantiaca Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 382. 1868. 
? Glaziella sulfuvea Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 15: 206. 1899. 
‘*Subglobosa, inflata, aurantiaca, polita, subtus pallidior, ostiolis impressis.’? Com- 
monly collected in the West Indies, but always sterile ; of doubtful relationship. 
USTILAGINOIDEA Bref. Unters. Gesammt. Myk. 12: 194. 1895. 
The imperfect stage of this fungus resembles a smut and the perfect stage is said to be 
similar to Spermoedia ; the genus has been placed in the Hypocreales by Lindau. Ustila- 
ginoidea Oryzae (Pat.) Bref. loc. cit., commonly known as the green smut of rice, is re- 
ported as occurring in Louisiana. 
