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EUROTIUM, Lk. 



Spec. Plant. VI, i, p. 79. 



Perithecia superficial, globose, astomous, membranaceo-coriaceous. 

 Asci subspherical or pear-shaped, scattered. Sporidia lens-shaped or 

 spherical, sul (hyaline. 



E. hei'bariorum, (Wigg.) (.Plate 8) 



Miiioi herbariorum, Wigg. Pritu. Flor. Hols. p. in. 

 Eurotiutn epijcylon, Schm. & Kze. Deutschl. Schwamme. 83. 

 Eurotium Aspergillus glaucus, de Bary Beitr. Ill, p. 19. 

 Kxsicc. Rab. Herb. Mycol. 4^ -Thum. F. Austr. 656, 848. Ell. N. A. F. 383. 



Mycelium superficial, loose, at first white, then red or reddish- 

 yellow. Perithecia globose, sulphur yellow, 75-100 // diaiu. Asci 

 sfiherical or pear-shaped. 12-15 /j. diam.. 8-spored. Sporidia lens- 

 shaped, with a groove around the edge and the margin on each side 

 briefly radiate-striate. 8-10 /* diam. 



On poorly preserved herbarium specimens cVc.. in damp place.-. 



MYRIOCOCCUM, Fr. 



^ystema Mycologicum II, p. 304 



Perithecia u-lol>ose. membranaceous, subastoinous, firm, gregarious, 

 seated on an interwoven. nuice<linous subiculum. 



M. Everhartii, Sacc. & Ell. Syll. 1. ]. 7 GO. (Plate 9) 



Kxsicc. EH. N. A. F 766. 



Perithecia densely <iTei--arioiis. subirlobose, obtuse. astornou>. 

 l.")0-200 // diam. densely clothed with a very thin, pale cinereous, 

 cottony coat. Texture of the perithecia areolate, thin. memViran- 

 aceous, subrufous. A-ci? S]>ores? conglutinate, globose or angular, 

 and of various shapes. S-12 // diam.. granular-nucleate, hyaline. Dif- 

 I'ei-s from ^L f)r<t cox, Fr. principally in the cottony layer enveloping 

 the perithecia. 



On rotten wood. New Jersey inside a hollow willow loff, Penn- 







-yl \-ania (Everhart). 



M. eonsiiuile, E. & E. Proc. of the Acad. of Arts and Sci. Phila.. 

 July, 1890. 



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Perithecia gregarious, globose, 80-100 /j. diam.. carbonaceo- 

 inembranaceoiis. nearly black, collapsing, pierced with a small round 

 opening above, the upper half finely radiate-striate, texture close. 

 finely radiate-cellular, tilled with olivaceous, oblong. 4-4Jxli // 

 spores, without any evident asci or basidia. The perithecia are en- 

 veloped in a loose, glauco-cinereous mycelium of the same color and 

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