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frequently collapsing. Ostiolum papilliform or inconspicuous. Asci 

 cylindrical or clavate-cylindrical, 8-spored, paraphysate. Sporidia 

 ellipsoid, muriforni, brown or (in the subgenus Teic&osporella) hyaline. 

 Lignicolous or corticolous. 



Cooke and Winter make Teichospora a synonym of Sfrickeria, 

 which latter name seems to have precedence, but we have retained the 

 generic mi me Tei<-Ii< t xjn)i'<.t. which Saccardo has adopted in his Sylloge. 



A. Perithecia not collapsing, sporidia colored . 

 Teicli. oluliioens, (Fr.) 



Sphtzria obducens, Fr. S. M. II, p. 456. 



Sph&ria plateata , Curr. Linn. Trans. XXII, p. 318. tab. 57, fig. 35. 

 Sphtzria miskibutris, De Not. Schema, p. 47. 

 Teichospora obducens, Fckl. Symb. p. 161. 

 Strickeria obducens, Winter Pilze, 3207. 

 Exsicc. Fckl, F. Rh. 2024. Rabh. F. Eur. 638. Rehm Asc. 42. 



Perithecia gregarious or crowded, subsuperficial, ovoid-globose. 

 unequal, rigid, rugulose. -lal irons, with u papilliform ostiolum, black. 

 about \ mm. diam. Asci briefly pedicellate, clavate-cylindrical, 150- 

 180x18-22 //, 8-spmvd. Sporidia uniseriate or subbisei-iate. sul>- 

 elli]isnid. o-T-septale and iiiurifnrm. constricted in the middle, brown- 

 ish, 20-30x9-1- //. with filiform paraphyses. 



On Sassal'i-as, mountains of Xew York, and on alder (Berk, in 

 Grev. IV. p. 142). on Viburnum, London, Canada (Dearness), var. 

 , Sacc. Syll. I, p. 206, on wood of Abies, Idaho (Dr. Eckfeldt). 



Teich. Eucalypti, (Cke. & Hark.) 



ria Eucalypti, Cke. & Hark. Grev. XIII, p. 20. 

 Teichospora Eucalypti, Sacc. Syll 7105. 



Perithecia scattered, subsuperficial, small, subglobose, black. 

 Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Sporidia. uniseriate, elliptical, slightly 

 constricted, 5-7 -septate and muriform. brown, 20-22 x 8 ;t. 



On rotten wood of Eucalyptus, California.. 



Teich. interstiticalis, (C. & P.) 



Sphceria (Denudatae] inter stitialis, C. & P. 2gth Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p. 61. 

 Teichospora inter stitialis, Sacc. Syll. 3885, Cke. Syn. 3501. 



Perithecia gregarious, at first semiimmersed, always apparently 

 so by nestling among the fibers of the wood, subglobose, pierced at the 

 apex, black, 300-500 t u diani. Asci cylindrical. Sporidia uniseriate. 

 polymorphous, triseptate, with occasional longitudinal septa, deeply 

 constricted, brown, 30-35x12-16 p.. 



On decorticated wood of cherry, Greenbush, X. Y. (Peck). 



