Par? 1, 1910] CHAETOMIACEAE 61 
the lower part clothed with fine, loosely entangled, pale slate-colored, branching hairs ; 
upper part clothed more sparingly with smooth, dark-brown, very slender, flexuous hairs, 
4u broad at the base and tapering gradually to the end, often 700-1000 # long, rarely branch- 
ing, continuous or remotely septate; asci narrow-cylindric, 303.5%; spores 1-seriate, 
broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 4.5-6 X 3.5-4.5 4. 
On hickory barrel-hoop, basswood bottom of barrel, and an old churn. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Newfield, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey and Kansas. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. i. 16, f. 1-6. 
ExsiccaTi; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2250. 
7. Chaetomium crispatum Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 90. 1869. 
Sphaeria crispata Fuckel, Fungi Rhen. 2022. 1867. 
Chaetomium contortum Peck, Ann, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: 24. 1897. 
Perithecia more or less gregarious, broadly ovoid or subglobose, reaching a height of 
400, membranaceous, dark-brown, thickly clothed with hairs; lateral and basal hairs 
smooth, septate, slender, pale-brown ; apical setae forming a dense, black, spherical mass 
700 in diameter above the perithecium, rigid, densely and minutely incrusted, light-brown 
and distinctly septate at the base, gradually becoming darker toward the tip which is dark- 
brown, 11 thick, indistinctly septate, and irregularly contorted into 6-8 loops, alternate 
loops being in opposite directions; asci stipitate, the spore-bearing part 82-100 K 10; 
paraphyses simple, elongate-clavate; spores 1-seriate, globose or globose-ovoid, apiculate 
at both ends, 12-13 < 9-11, subhyaline or fuscous at maturity. 
On bulbs of Lilium longiflorum Thunb. ; these are said to have been imported from Japan, 
and the fungus may have been brought with them. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Germatty. 
DISTRIBUTION : New Jersey ; also in Europe. 
fl One EH. & P. Nat. Pfl. ': f. 252, G; Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 42: pl. 20, 
8. Chaetomium cochliodes Palliser, sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, broadly ovoid to subglobose, 300-400 # in diameter, 
thin, membranaceous, dark-brown, thickly clothed with hairs; lateral and basal hairs pale- 
brown, septate, slender, not exceeding 4 in thickness even at the base, and gradually 
tapering toward the end; apical hairs extremely flexuous, almost from the base, at the end 
becoming irregularly spirally curved, usually smooth but occasionally minutely scrabrous at 
the base, numerous, often forming a densely interwoven mass extending 700 # above the 
perithecium; spores subhyaline to pale-brown, broadly ovoid to subglobose, sometimes 
scarcely apiculate at the ends, 9-11 < 8-10. 
On exposed paper, dried hay, old mat, basket, paper in JZucor culture, etc. 
Type collected on paper exposed to the weather, Newfield, New Jersey, October, 1880 (Ellis & 
Ev. N. Am. Fungi 14/, in part). 
DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey to Louisiana. 
ExsiccaTi: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2547, in part (as C. Chartarum). 
9. Chaetomium spirochaete Palliser, sp. nov. 
Perithecia more or less gregarious, broadly ellipsoid, 300 2254, thin, brittle, dark- 
brown, often appearing black, thickly clothed with hairs ; basal and lateral hairs remotely 
septate, smooth, brown, flexuous, 3» thick ; apical hairs numerous, often forming a densely- 
entangled, dark spherical mass 8004 in diameter, straight for about 350 from the base, 
then becoming extremely flexuous or irregularly spirally twisted several times, dark-brown, 
at the base 4-5 # thick, more or less thickly incrusted, toward the end becoming paler and 
less incrusted, although scabrous throughout ; spores subhyaline to brown, broadly ovoid, 
slightly apiculate at either end, 7-11 X 6-9u. 
On moist decayed paper and cotton root in moist chamber. 
Type collected on cotton root kept in a moist chamber, Ames, Iowa, June, 1890, LZ. H. Pammel 
(herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey to Iowa. 
10. Chaetomium flexuosum Palliser, sp. nov. 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, 300-400 225-350 #, thin, 
membranaceous, dark-brown to black, clothed on all sides with hairs; basal and lateral 
