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amphigenous, black, at length broadly confluent, formed of loosely 

 branched, interwoven, creeping hypha3 10-1 1 /;. thick. Hyphopodia 

 scattered, capitate, generally entire or a little crenate, often curved, 

 with a short, cylindrical stipe. Bristles numerous, erect, straight, tips 

 di-trichotomously divided, the branches again sometimes bifid, or more 

 rarely with 3-4 short branches near the apex. 



Perithecia gregarious, globose, tardily collapsing, rough, black, 

 175-240 fj. diain. Asci evanescent. Sporidia cylindrical, rounded at 

 the ends, 4-septnte, constricted at the septa, dark, the middle cell 

 mostly swollen, 52-62 x 19-23 //. 



On leaves of Safari xci't'iriata, Florida to Louisiana and Texas. 



B. Sporidia 3-5-septate. 

 31. eryptocarpa, E. & 31. Am. Nat. 17, p. 1284. 



Exsicc EH. N. A. F. No. 1293. 



Spots tomentose, mostly epiphyllous, suborbicular, 2-4 mm. diam., 

 numerous and often confluent. Mycelium pale brown, creeping, sep- 

 tate, irregularly branched, hearing numerous, oblong-fusiform conidia, 

 which are pale brown, 3-4-septate, 30-40x5-9 /i. obtuse or acute 

 above, and contracted below into a short, hyaline stipe. Erect 

 bristles abundant, simple, multiseptate. black, tips entire and paler. 

 Perithecia black, subglnbose, not abundant and often sterile, 180-200 /JL 

 diam., collapsing, surrounded at base with a few diverging, brown, 

 septate appendages, which, like the bristles, are more or less crisped 

 or undulate above. Asci oblong-ovate, 8-spored. Sporidia brown, 

 oblong or oblong-clavate, 2-seriate, 3-5-septate, 30-50x10-12 (JL. 



On leaves of Gordonia lasiantkus, Florida (Martin). 

 M. inanca, E. & M. Am. Nat. 17, p. 1284. 



Meliola sanguined, E. & E. Journ. Myc. II, p. 42. 

 Exsicc. EH. N. A. F. 1292. 



Perithecia rnembranaceous, |-| mm. diam., subastonious, smooth, 

 or at least without any bristle-like appendages, mostly epiphyllous 

 and either solitary or several in a small, rather compact group, on 

 orbicular, subindeterminate patches of black, branching mycelium 

 with alternate, obovate hyphopodia, much the same as those of M. 

 amphitricha, Fr. Asci oblong-obovate, 2-spored. Sporidia oblong- 

 cylindrical, slightly curved, 3-septate, 3 8-44 x 12-15 />, obtuse, hyaline, 

 becoming brown. 



On living leaves of Myrica cerifera, Florida, and on leaves of 

 JRubus trivialis (M. sanguinea), in Louisiana. 



