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or crowded above, elliptical, continuous, smoky-brown, about 5 x 2 /+. 

 On a decavinir elm loir, Manhattan, Kansas (Kellerman A: Swiu- 



V V 



gle). 



G. sporidia uniseptate, brow. 



H. cubispora, Ell. <& Hoi. .Journ. Mycol. I, p. 4. 



Stroma obconi^-tuberculiform, subplicate below, about 1 cm. high, 

 lemon-yellow within and without, surface 1 minutely punctate with the 

 Mack ostiola. Perithecia peripherical, globose, about 250 /JL diain , con- 

 tents black. Asci cylindrical, containing eight cubical or oblong-trun- 

 cate, dark-olive or brownish-black, 2-nucleate, 4-7 x 3-4 /j. sporidia, 

 some of which are obscurely uniseptate. 



( )n a decavinu log, Iowa. 



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H. sporidia 3-septate, yellowish or brown. 

 H. chlorina, Cke. Grev. VII, p. 49. 



Exsicc. Rav. F. Am. 342. 



Flattened, discoid, elliptical or elongated, 1-2 mm. diam.. clay- 

 colored (bright-yellow within). Perithecia immersed, brown, ostiola 

 blackish, punctiform. Asci clavate, spore-bearing part about 75 x 15 //, 

 surrounded with almndant filiform paraphyses. Sporidia l>iseriate, 

 narrow-elliptical, endochrome three times divided, yellowish (becom- 

 ing brown?), 20-25 x 8-9 it. On bark of hickory, Darien, Ga. The 

 stronia is of about the same color as the bark, flatter than in the pro- 

 ceeding species, but of about the same color. 



[. Stronia erect. 

 H. Petersii, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 13. 



" At first sight this looks like an Agaric invested with some Hy~ 

 jtoniyccx. but the fructification is exactly that of a Hypocrea. Stem 

 irregular, dilated upwards, about an inch high. Head orbicular, 

 irregular, rufous. Perithecia both on the under and upper sides. 

 Sporidia globose in linear asci." 



Found in Alabama, by lion. J. M. Peters. 



There can be but little doubt that the stipe and agariciform he-ad 

 are a real Agaric on which the Hypocr-ea is parasitic. 



H. alutacea (Pers.) 



Sphezfia alutacea, Pers. Comment. Clavar. p. 12. 

 Sphceria clavata, Sow. Brit. Fungi tab. II, fig. 159. 

 Cordiceps alutaceus, Lk. Hndbk. de Gewachse III, p. 374. 

 Hypocrea alutacea, Tul Sel. Carp. I, p. 62. Winter Die Pilze II, p. 142 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. E). 132, 246. 



