1 2r> 



V;ir. chartarum, (CJi. chcD'turum. Khr. Sylva. p. 27)? issued in Ell. 

 A: Evrht. X. A. F. 2d Ser. 1541 as C7>. chartarum, Fhr., in Tlmm. M. 

 U. 1942 and Roum. F. G. 4930, as Ch. olnweum,C. k !].. differs only 

 in its slightly smaller Sporidia and color varying from nearly black 

 to mouse-color. l>ut sometimes greenish-yellow as in the type. 



Judging from the description of that species and the figure in 

 Corda's ["cones, this var. on paper can hardly lie the genuine Ch. 

 <-J,iii-t<iriiiii, Ehr. which with CJ>. Fieberi,Gdi&. and (77?. ylobnxmn. K/e.. 

 Dr. Zo])f. includes in his CJ>. Kuitzpi.nnnit. 



Ch. bostrychodes, Zopf, Ent\v. d. Chaet. p. 81. tab. 7, figs. 14-28. 



Ch. caninum, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. IV. p. 79. 

 I'.xsicc. Sydow. M. March. 43. ? Rab. F. E. 3340. 



Perithecia small, elliptical, fusoid, or cylindrical, reaching 340 /;. 

 hiii'li and 220 n thick, brown, with a short, papillose, hyaline ostiolum. 

 Root-like hairs from the base (rhi/oids) not very numerous. Apical 

 tuft consisting of regularly spirally bent, rouo-hish hairs. Asci club- 

 shaped, p. sp. 20-22x7-10 it. with a stipe-like base 20-30 n, long. 

 Sporidia ovate-globiM- or elliptical, somewhat flattened, 5-6 x 4-5 it. 

 olive-lro\vn. < >n dog's dung and on an old cast-oil' leather shoe. Louis- 

 iana (Langlois). on the first named host. Long Island. X. V. (/abriskie). 



Ch. lanosiun, Pk.. 2sth Rep. X. Y. St. Mus. p. 04. 



i:\sicc. Roum. F. 0.4437? 



Perithecia minute, subglobose, scattered or gregarious, densely cov- 

 ered with long woolly hairs, which are cither dingy olivaceous or 

 mouse-colored. Asci short, broad, fugacious. Sporidia subglobose. at 

 first pale, then slightly colored. 7J.-SJ n diam. with a single large nu- 

 cleus. 



On herbarium specimens of grasses, Albany, X T . Y. (Peck). 



The specimens in Fungi Gallici above quoted have the asci (p. sp.) 

 35_40 x 12-1 "> a with a stipe-like base 15-20 a long. Sporidia closely 

 packed, globose-elliptical, yellowish-hyaline, very short-apiculate-point- 

 ed at each end. 10-13x8-10 //. : apical hairs very long, spreading. 

 smooth, very sparsely septate, brown, 5-6 ft diam., not abundant. 

 Perithecia J-J mm. diam. with apex bare, black and shining. 



Ch. funicohim, Cke. Grev. I, p. 176. 



Perithecia scattered, subovate, black: hairs of the vertex very 

 long, dichotomous or simple, erect, slender, acute, black. Sporidia 

 lemon-shaped, dingy brown. 



