107 



never seen the original specimens on Yucca and have taken the fore- 

 ii'oinsi 1 from Grevillea. The conidial staire is F natrium YHCOI , 



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On Yucca aloifolia, Aiken. So. Carolina. 



From an examination of the specimens in X. A. F. (det. by Cke. i 

 we add the following notes. Peritheeia ovoid-globose, small (160- 

 190 //), pale and furfuraceous at first, becoming l>are and pale rod. 

 Ostiolmn papillate and slightly darker. Asci clavate-cylindricaL 

 35-40x4/v.. sessile. Sporidia oblong-elliptical, subbiseriate, 9-11 x 

 3-3| //. There are often six and even ten perithecia on each ernmpent. 

 white byssoid-arumose stroma. 



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The X. A. F. specc. were found on dead ClctJi>-<i. at Newfield, X. J. 

 X. aglseothele, B. & (\ Grev. IV, p. 45. 



Pale; ostiolum distinct, papilliform. darker, then deeply sunk by 

 <-olla})sion. Asci linear. Sporidia ellijitical. uniseriate, slightly attenu- 

 ated at each end. 1 '2-14 //long. 



On alder, apparently growing from the remains of some Coccu*. 

 Xc\v Knirland (Sprague). 



A stylosporous lorm (.V. mi Pultun. 1>. A: Rav., Santee Canal, So. 

 Carolina), has ccspitnsc. neat tan-colored perithecia with obovate. uni- 

 -eptate sporules, 10-15 //. long. 



X. riiiiiiicola, Cke. Oiev. XL p. 108. 



Kxsicc. Rav. F. Am. 644. 



Gregarious or scattered, superficial, scarlet, growing in cracks of 

 the bark. Perithecia subglobose, finally depressed, glabrous, sub- 

 sliining. i mm. diam. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia uniseriate, unisep- 

 tate, hyaline, not constricted, 12x4 /JL. 



In cracks of the bark of Liquidambar, seaboard of Carolina 

 (Ravenel). 



X. Brassicae, Ell. & Sacc. Mich. II, p. 374. 



Exsicc. EH. N. A. F. 572. 



Perithecia densely gregarious, globose-conoid, not collapsing, very 

 small (125 ), blood-red, ostiolum rather obtuse-conical, texture loosely 

 cellular, rose-tinted, paler around the ostiolum. Asci clavate-cylin- 

 drical, 60 x 7-8. without paraphyses, briefiy-stipitate, obtuse at the 

 apex, containing eight oblong, subclavate. hyaline, uniseptate, 10-11 x 

 4-4J p. sporidia. 



This was first found on old cabbage stalks and at the same time 

 the next year on old potato .stalks lying scattered over the same ground 



