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I. pahistris, Berk. & Br. Linn. Journ. 1. c. fig. 5. 



Carnose-suberose, dark, dirty flesh-colored, stipe cylindrical, bifid, 

 or trifid above. 25-50 mm. long. including tlie clavate. subcylindrical 

 head which is roughened by tli<- projecting ostiola. Sporidia filiform, 

 separating into small (H /'> globose joints. 



On dead larva? in damp ground. Carolina (Ra.venel). 



( . stylophora, Berk. & Br. Linn. Journ. 1. c. tig. 3. 

 Yellow. Stipe slender, 12-18 mm. long, J mm. thick. Head 

 much elongated, with the surface nearly smooth. Perithecia immersed. 



On dead larvae, Carolina (Ravenel). 



The specimen in Ravenel's Fungi Car. Exsicc. V. No. 49. lias 

 the slender stem a little over 2 cm. long, the ascigerous part occupy- 

 ing; a medial position, cylindrical, and slightly enlarged, about 8 mm. 

 long by 1 mm. thick, with a sterile, slender beak, about | cm. long, 

 being a prolongation of the stipe, but the specimen is apparently imma- 

 ture, being without asci or sporidia. 



C. elavulata, (Schw.) (Plate 15 ) 



Spluzria elavulata, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1155. 

 l~,rrubia pi stillancE formi^ B. & Br. Brit. Fung, 969? 

 The Syn. ^Tnrmbia cinerea, Ell" in Sacc. Syll. rests on some error. 

 Exsicc. Thum. M. U. 1258. 



From specimens collected by Prof. Peck, and distributed in de 

 Thuemeirs Mycotheca Univcrsalis. No. 1258, we have drawn the fol- 

 lowing description. Stroma simple, clavate, about 3x mm., consist- 

 iim- of a light-cinereous stipe, surmounted by a black, ovate, or elliptical 

 head, about 1 mm. high and \ mm. thick, roughened by the rounded, 

 prominent perithecia. which are of coarse cellular structure, and only 

 imperfectly perforated above. Asci subsessile, broadest in the middle, 

 contracted above, and rounded at the apex, 80-95 x 8-10 /JL. Sporidia 

 filiform, multiseptate. 40-70 x 1 -2 /v.. joints 3-5 p long. 



On dead scale insects (Lecanium), on living branches of Fru,>-- 

 inn# and Prinos, N Y. (Peck). On branches of Clethru, Xewfield. 

 X. J., on Cat-pinus, Canada (Dearness). 



In Sacc. Syllogc II, p. 568, the species represented by the above 

 specimens is made a synonym of C. pistillariceformis, B. & Br., but if 

 the two species are the same, the name of Schweinitz has priority, 

 and it is quite certain that the specimens in M. U 1258, are the gen- 

 uine C. davulnta Schw. 



