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Pod. Brassicae. (Klofzsch). 



Spti<rt ni Jirasxirae, Klot/scli in Smith's Ktigl. Flora V, p. 216. 



Sfthtriia hiiiii^inosa, Preuss in I,inn. 1853, XXVI, p. 714. 



. \i niitin hiimxiHotiiHi, Nits, in Fckl. Symh. Nachtr. I, p. 38. 



Soniaria Curn-yi, Awd. in Niesl Beitrag. p 42. 



Sanlaria lanit^htosa, Sacc. Syll. 859. 



Pbdospoi (i />r<7.s.s/7r. Winter Pilze 2985. 



Perithecia globose-conical , often curved. subtruncate above, dirty 

 gray-tomentose. about 1 mm. high and j nun. thick, superficial. Asci 

 cylindrical, p. sp. 150-160x25-26 ft, stipitate. Sporidia obliquely 

 imisoriate, ovate-elliptical, 40-50x24 /A dark brown, with a deciduous, 

 hyaline appendage at each end, or sometimes only below. 



Dr. Harkness reports tliis as found, in California on dead brandies 

 of Lujihnix arboreus. We have not seen the specimens and take the 

 diagnosis from Saceardo's Sylloge. The synonymy is from Winter's 

 Pilze. where the asci are <riven as 200-300x34-40 // ibi- the spore- 

 beurin.ii 1 jiart. instead of l;")0-160x 25-26 // as stated in Syllouv. 



Pod. Californica, (Plowr.f 



Sniria i in Calif arnica, Plowr. Grev. VII. p. 72, tab. 120, fig. 2. 



Perithecia ovate, clothed with a duskv brown, felt-like coat, about 



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half sunk in the matrix. 1 mm. high, by about | mm. broad, the pro- 

 jecting apex more or less distinctly ridged, with the intervening fur- 

 rows more distinct and coarser than in Pod. xtriata, E. & E. Asci 

 sul (cylindrical. 300-350 x 15-20 ft. with filiform paraphyses. Sporidia 

 biseriate, oblong-elliptical, 30-35 x 15-18 ft. subtruncate at base, with 

 a hyaline, curved appendage about as long as the sporidinm. 



On cow dung, California (Harkness). 



Our specimen from Dr. Harkness has the perithecia immature, the 

 sporidia being as yet hyaline, and consisting of a narrow-elliptical head 

 25 x 12 // with a long cylindrical tail below. 



PHILOCOPRA, Speg. 



Nova Syst. Carp. Class, in F. Arg. Pug. I, Sacc. Syll. I, p. 249. 



Perithecia semi-immersed, globose-conical, glabrous or hairy, 

 membranaceous. turning black. Asci very large, polysporous. Spo- 

 ridia polystichous. ovoid, brown, mostly with a hyaline appendage at 



one or both ends. 



Ph. liitea, (E. & E.) (Plate J8)* 



Soidaria liitea, K. & K. Journ. Mycol. Ill, p. nS. 



Perithecia gregarious. J-l mm. diam., membranaceous, conic- 



:: 'In explanation of PL 18. instead of Podospora Itttca read 

 Philocopra 



