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H. viridiriifa. B. & Rav. Grev. IV, p. 14. 



"Subglobose, congested, or confluent, greenish-rufous. Ostiola 

 impressed. Sporidia oblong, witli two nuclei." 

 On dead alders, South Carolina (Ravenel). 



In Grevillea XI, p. 129, this is referred to Hypoxylon, but if the 

 specimen of If. rwfo-viridis, B. <fe Rav., in Rav. Car. fasc, V. No. 53, 

 is the same as H. viridi-rwfa, B. & Rav.. in Grev. 1. c., the stroma is 

 not carbonaceous (as it should be in Hypoxylon}, but carnose. The 

 specimen referred to is, in our copy, without fruit apparently im- 

 mature. . 



H. solenostoma, B. & Rav. Grev. IV. p. 14. 



"Subglobose, pale rufous, rather irregular. Ostiola cylindrical, 

 elongated. Sporidia globose, 4 /j. diam." 



On decaying Packyma coco.s, Schw., Carolina. 



B. Stroma pidrinate. Sporidia colored. 

 H. gelatinosa (Tode). 



Sphazria gelatinosa, Tode. Fuugi Meckl. II, pp. 48 & 49. 

 Hypocrea gelatinosa.) FT. Sumrn. Veg. Scaiid. p. 382. 

 Hxsicc. Thum. M. U. 2163 



Stromata gregarious, superficial, pulvinate, or subhemispherical, 

 carnose, soft, punctate from the slightly prominent ostiola, 1J-3 mm. 

 in diam. at first with a thin, light-colored tomentum at the base, pale, 

 becoming yellowish or at length greenish, whitish within, subrugose, 

 and partially collapsing when dry. Asci cylindrical, contracted into 

 a short pedicel at the base, 80-90 x3J-4J /JL, 8-spored. Sporidia com- 

 posed of two unequal cejls, the upper nearly spherical (4 //), the lower 

 ellipsoid, or ovoid, (3 //), yellowish. Probably common throughout. 

 Var. ?vV/W/x (Tode) is reported by Peck on maj)le chips, New York 

 State. 



On rotten wood (Carya &c.), South Carolina (Ravenel), Penn- 

 sylvania (Everhart), Connecticut (Thaxter). The stroma is at first of 

 a yellowish-horn-color, becoming dirty-yellowish and dusted with the 

 greenish sporidia (brownish-yellow under the microscope). 



H. ehlorospora, B. & . Grev. IV, p. 14. 



Stromata small, greenish-black, nearly round, sessile, convex. 

 (1-1^ /JL), roughened by the rather prominent ostiola. Asci narrow-cylin- 

 drical, about 75x4 ,, with eight two-celled sporidia, each cell subcu- 

 bical or nearly globose, of an olivaceous color and 3-3| JJL in diam. 



On decaying bark. Newfield, N. J. also reported from. New York. 



