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appendage at the apex and a longer, curved, cylindrical appendage 

 40-60 x 3 /jt at the base, almost exactly like the sporidia of Bombard !u 

 fasciculata. 



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On rotten wood. Xewfield, N. J. 



Tlie general aspect is much like that of L. Itirxuta. 



Doubtful species. 

 L. biformis, (Pers.) 



Sphceria biformis, Pers. Syn. p. 59. 

 Lasiosphtzria biformis, Sacc. Sj-11. 3585. 



Perithecia scattered or crowded, globose or ovate, brown when 

 vounir, becoming black, clothed with tolerablv long, riirid. scattering 



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hairs, with a more <>r less elongated, thick ostiolum. Asci and sporidia 

 unknown. 



Credited to America by Fries, and reported from California by 

 Harkness. 



TRICHOSPHJERIA, Fckl. 



Symbolae Mycologicae, p. 144. 



Perithecia small, superficial, membranaceous or sometimes of 

 firmer, subcarbonaceous texture, spherical or ovate, hairy or bristlv. 

 AM-I oblong or cylindrical, 8-spoi-ed, paraphysate. Sjioridia oblong, 

 ovate or cylindrical, continuous, hyaline. 



T. pilosa. (Pers.) (Plate 19) 



Sphceria pilosa, Pers. Syn. p. 73. 

 Trichosphezria pilosa, Fckl. Symb. p. 145. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 946. 



Perithecia small (about 200 IJL diam.), generally crowded in broadly 

 effused patches, but sometimes scattered, superficial, of firm, almost 

 woody texture, black, globose-ovate, hairy, with a short, thick, promi- 

 nent ostiolum. Asci cylindrical or subventricose. contracted into a 



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stipe-like base, 50-60x4-5 /^, with numerous filiform paraphyses. 

 Sporidia tmiseriatc, or subbiseriate, elliptical, hyaline, one-celled. 5-8 

 x 3-4 a. 



Tnder the shingles of a roof, and on pine wood, South Carolina 

 (Ravenel). 



Tr. pulchriseta, (Pk.) 



Spkceria pulckriseta, Pk. 3ist Rep. p. 50. 

 Acanthostigma pulchrisetum, Sacc. Syll. 3605. 



Perithecia superficial, globose, membranaceous, black, 75-1 10 <L 

 diam., gregarious, clothed with short (35-40 /z). rigid, straight, black 



