ISO 



clavate. Sporidia cymbifonn, amie ,-it each cud. 4-imeIeaie. becoming 

 uniseptate. l*") tt long. hyaline. 



On decaying V<-cniliuit. Newfield. X. ,1. 







M. Texnisis. (Cke.) 



7't:ti'ii.\i.\\ Ckr. Texas Fungi, 143. 

 Ti .tv//.w.v Sacc. Syll, 2266. 



Scattered over irrayish or bleached spots. Perithccia subirlobose. 

 immersed in the blackened wood, scarcely prominent. Asci cvlin- 



mi I v 



drical. S]oi-idin lanceolate, imiseptate, hyaline. 15 x (>//.. 



On old oak rails, Texas (Ravenel). 



Specimens of thi> species in our Herb, from Ravenel (part of the 

 original Texas collection) have tin 1 asci oblong-cylindrical, about 60 x 

 l"2 n. neai'lv sessile and surrounded bv abundant, lilifbrm. bi-anehinir 



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paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate, clavate-oblong, uniseptate, hyaline, 

 1042x3-o|/^. end- >ui)acute. Only the vertex of the peritliecia 

 ])rojects above the surface of the \vood. 



M. segregata, (B. & C.) 



Sf'lun ia segregata, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 141. 

 ZignwAla scgri'g a/a, Sacc. Syll. 3647. 

 fsilwp/icen'a xt'^ir^ala, Cke. Syii. 2980. 



"Perithecia scattered over the bleached surface, free, ovate, acute 

 at the apex. Sporidia hyaline, narrow, uniseptate. elongated-biconical." 

 On decaved wood. North Carolina. 



e 



BERTIA, De N(t. 



Giorn. Botan. Ital. I, p. 335. 



Perithecia superficial or nearly so, more or less irregular in shape. 

 of a leathery-carbonaceous texture, surface tubercular or eoarselv 



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\vrinlded. irlabrous, black. Asci clavate, 4- 8-spored. Sporidia elon- 

 gated, subcylindrical, uniseptate, hyaline. 



B. moriformis, (Tode). 



Spluri ia nwriformis, Tode Fungi Meckl. II, p, 22, fig. 90. 

 Sphecria clai'ifonm's, Sow. Eng. Fungi tab. 337. 

 Sp/itri ia nigosa, Grev. Flor. Kdiu. p. 364. 

 /,',-/ I/a nun ifornti^. De Not. 1. C. 



!, \sicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 999. Rab. Herb. Mj-col. 637. Relim Asc. 442. Sydow Mycoth. 

 March, 



Perithecia crowded, superficial, ovate or ovate-globose, often com- 

 pressed verticallv or otherwise irregular, black, surface coarsely tubei'- 



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cular-roughened, ^-J mm. diam. Asci elongated-clavate, pedicellate. 

 "KJO 1 ()."> x 14-1 (' u.. Paraphvses faintly septate. Sporidia 8 in an 



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asciis. crowded irregularly, hyaline, cylindrical or fusoid-cylindrical, 



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