45 

 M. Smilacis, De Not. Micr. Dec. IV. p. 22. 



Myiocopron Smilacis, Sacc. Syll. II, p. 660. 



Exsicc. Rabh. Herb. Myc. 654. Rehm. Ascom. 447. Thum. M. U. 1448. EH. N. A. F. 

 600. 



Peritliecia superficial, flat, orbicular. J-j mm. diam., often con- 

 fluent, forming a continuous, rough, black crust. Asci oblong or ovate. 

 50-60x18-20 (10x6 //., Sacc.) Sporklia biseriate, ovate-elliptical, 

 1-celled, hyaline, 12-18 x 8-10 p. 



On dead steins of SniH'.i.v, common. 



31. raicroscopicum, Desm. Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. II. XV, p. 138. 



Sacc. Fuugi Italici, tab. 562. 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 967, 1963, 2943. 



Peritliecia flattened, brown, about 150 IJL diam., pierced in the 

 center, margin subfimbriate. Asci clavate-oblong, sessile, S-spored. 

 25-30x7-9 IJL. Sporidia biseriate or irregularly crowded, elongated- 

 ovate, subinequilateral, liyalino, and when mature, with a septum near 

 the loAver end. 8-10 x 3-3| //. 



On dead dry leaves of Azalea and 31yri<-<i. New Jersey. Prob- 

 ablv common in other sections and on other leaves. 







M. Pinastri. Fckl. and J/ Utiyinxiun. Sacc. should also be found 

 in this country as their spermogonial stage is often met with. 



3IELIOLA, Fr. 



Elench. Fuug. II, p. 109. 



Perithecia globose, astomous, membranaceous, surrounded by 

 stout, bristle-like, simple or branched appendages, and seated on orbic- 

 ular patches of radiately-branched, or subcrustaceous mycelium. A 

 mostly short and thick, 2-8-spored ; paraphyses none. Sporidia ob- 

 long, 2-5-septate, dark, exceptionally hyaline, continuous or fenestrato. 



A. Sporidia ^-septate. 



M. aniphitrielia, Fr. Elench. Fung. II, p. 109. 



See also Grev. XI, p. 37. Mont. Cuba, p. 326. Revue Mycol. iSSS, p. 134. Journ. 



Mycol. I, p. 146. 



Syn. Sphczria aniphiti icha, Fr. S. M. II, p. 513. 

 Meliola tennis, B. & C. (sec. Cooke, Grev. VII, p. 49). 

 Rav. F. Am. 83. EH. N. A. F. 1296. 



Spots black, crustaceous, orbicular, often confluent, anrphigenous. 

 but mostly hypophyllous, mycelium brown-black, remotely septate, 

 radiating, Avith short, pyriform, uniseptate, alternate branches (hypho- 

 podia). Perithecia black, globose, then depressed and at length col- 

 lapsing, rugulose, 200-300 IJL diam., surrounded by black, opake, rigid, 

 erect, entire -setae 300-500x9-12 p.. Asci oval, 2-spored, evanescent. 

 Sporidia oblong, dusky. 3-septate, \ onstricted at the septa, 50-60 x 16 

 -24/. 



