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In Grev. XVI, p. 89, this is placed by Cooke in Amphisphazria as 

 having- brown sporidia, but what we have taken for this species (on 

 white oak bark. Xewfield), has hyaline sporidia. Berkeley, in Grev. 

 IV, p. 144, gives the sporidia as ''shortly fusiform, oblique, uniseptate. 

 33 fji long." 



M. latericollis, (Fr.) 



Sphcena latericollis. Fr. S. M. II, p. 464. 

 Melanopsamma latericollis, Sacc. Syll. 2259. 



Perithecia scattered or subereffarious, rarelv 2-3-confluent, of 



tt 



niediuin size, at first immersed, then nearly free, obliquely ovate or 

 irregular, verv black. ( )stiolum u'enerallv lateral, straight or curved. 



*' - C? 



cylindrical, about as long as the peritheciuin. Asci oblong, stipitate, 

 8-spored, 80x14 u. Sporidia biseriate. oblong-fusoid, obtuse at tin- 

 cuds, straight or curved, uniseptate, sharply constricted at the septum. 

 cells 1-2-nucleate. slightly brownish, 24x7-8 //. 

 On rotten wood. Bethlehem, Pa. 



M. recessa. '. & P. 



Sph&ria, recessa, C. & P. 2gth. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p. 61. 

 Melanopsamma recessa, Sacc. Syll. 2265. 



Perithecia gregarious, at first semiimmersed, smooth, flattened, 

 dark brown or black, 300 JJL diam. Asci subclavate. Sporidia 1-2- 

 scriate, elliptical, uniseptate, deeply constricted at the septum, hyaline. 

 13-20x7-10 f^ The perithecia have something of a discoid appear- 

 ance. 



On rotten wood. Xew York State. 



M. cupressiua, E. & E. Journ. Myeol. II. p. 103. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, emergent-superficial, subliys- 

 teriiform-elongated, \-\ mm. diam., rough, carbonaceo-niembranaceous, 

 with a broad and rather depressed opening above, (probably with a 

 prominent ostiolum at first). Asci clavate-cylindrical, 55-70 x 10-12 p., 

 with filiform paraphyses. and 8 biseriate, yellowish-hyaline, clavate-ob- 

 long, uniseptate, about 12x4 /j. sporidia. 



On bleached wood of cypress and red cedar, Louisiana (Lamrlois. ) 



M. paeeilostoma, (B. & Br.) 



Sphceria p&cilostoma, B. & Br. Brit. Fungi, No. 876, tab. 10, fig. 23. 

 Zignoella pcEcilostoma, Sacc. Syll. 3652. 

 Conisphatria p&cilostoma, Cke. Syn. 3334. 



Perithecia partly free, subglobose, opake. Ostiola variable, obso- 

 lete, conic-cylindrical, frequently somewhat compressed. Asci short. 



