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ally aggregated, brown, surrounded by the orange-red epidermis. 

 Asci linear-clavate, 76-110 x 16-20 //. aparaphysate, 8-spored. Spo- 

 ridia irregularly biseriate. hyaline. 20-26 x 5-7 p., uniseptate. ellip- 

 tical, subacute, slightly constricted. 



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On Agave Shawii, S. W. United States. 



MELOGRAMMA, Fr. 



Summa Veg. Sc. p. 386. 



Stroina suborbicular, depressed-hemispherical, pulvinate or con- 

 ical, erunipent and superficial, mostly containing numerous perithecia. 

 Asci subcylindrical, 8-spored, paraphysate. Sporidia fusoid or cylin- 

 drical, with seyeral septa, hyaline or colored. 



M. Bulliardi, Tul. Sel. Carp. II, p. 81. (Plate 36, M. 



Variolaria Melogramma, Bull. Champ, torn. I, p. 182, tab. 492, fig. i. 

 Sph&ria ocellata, Pers. Disp. p. 2. 

 Sphczria Melogramma, Pers. Syn. p. 13. 



Melogramma fit sisporum, and campylosporum, Fr. Summa, p. 386. 

 Melogramma vagans, De Not. Micr. Dec. IX, No. 2. 

 Hypocrea Ravenelii, Berk, in Rav. F. Car. V, 51. 

 Diatrype lateritia, Ell. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, IX, p. 19. 

 Hypoxylon myriangioides, B. & C. in EH. N. A. F. 474. 



Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1033. Rab. F. E. 937, 1923. Thum. M. U. 366. Roum. F. G. 173, 

 1174. EH. N. A. F. 474. Rav. Fungi Car. V, No. 51. 



Stromata gregarious, scattered or subseriate and sometimes 

 confluent, erumpent-superficial, depressed-pulvinate, subhernispherical 

 or obtusely conical. 1-3 mm. diam.. dull brick-red at first, at length 



clay color or nearly black outside, brick-red or nearly blood-red inside, 



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of subcarnose texture, more or less roughened and pitted from the 

 collapsing of the upper part of the perithecia which are arranged in a 

 single peripheric layer, 10-40 in a stroma, oyate, small (less than \ 

 mm. diam.), at length more or less emergent and collapsing aboye. 

 Asci clayate, sessile, paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia crowded-biseri- 

 ate. fusoid, 3-septate, sli.ulitly curyed, light brown, en<<l cells paler. 

 38-50 x 3|-5 fj.. 



On dead limbs of Ccirpinus Americana. Carolina, Pennsylvania. 

 New York (Brown), and Canada (Dearness). 



In some of the Canada specc. the stroma is reduced to a mere 

 crust on which stand the cup-shaped perithecia, exactly as in FraccJ/l- 

 oea callista. The red color of the stroma both inside and out finally 

 disappears. 



31. Melia\ Curtis, in Curtis Cat. p. 143 and Grey. XIII, p. 103. 



(Not Sphtzria Melue,lSch-w., which is Botryosphcsria). 



Acervuli erunipent, black, subdisroid or oblong. Perithecia prom- 

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