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inent, at lenutli partially live, rugose, flattened above. Asci clavate, 

 large, 8-spored. Sporidia sublanceolate, 3-septate, not constricted, 

 rarely 5-septate, 38-42 x 10 //, brown. 



On Melia, Lower and Middle (Carolina (Curtis). 



M. Hibisci, (Schw.) 



Sphczria Hibisci, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1444. 

 Botryosphferia, Hibisci, Cke. Syn. 1422. 



Stromata scattered, small (1-2 mm.), suborbicular or by confluence 

 elongated and subflexuous. surrounded by the substellate-cleft epider- 

 mis. Perithecia 3-6 in a stroma, with the apex prominent, white in- 

 <ide at first. Asci cylindrical, 75-80x8-9 //, paraphysate, 8-spored, 

 Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, .or ovate-elliptical, yellowish-hyaline, 

 3-septate and slightly constricted at the middle septum, 18-20x 6-7 //. 



On Hibiscus Syriacus (cult.), Newfield, N. J. 



The specc. in Herb. Schw. show only the stylosporous stage (Dip* 

 lodia (Dothiorella) hibiscina, C. & E. Grev. VII, p. 5). 



M. ferrugmeum, (Pers.) 



Sphtzria ferruginea* Pers. Obs. I, p. 66. 

 Diatrype ferruginea, Fr. Summa Veg. Sc. p. 385. 

 Melogramma ferrugineum, Ces. & De Not. Schema Sferiac. p. 30. 

 Silia ferruginea, Karst. Mycol. Fenn. II, p. 159. 

 E)xsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1038. Sydow, M. March. 1883. Rehm Asc. 978. 



Stromata mostly numerous, irregularly scattered, often confluent, 

 pulvinate, round, elongated or sometimes 4-angled, 1-3 mm. broad, 

 surrounded by the erect or recurved margin of the ruptured epidermis, 

 black outside, rusty-yellow-pulverulent within. Perithecia generally 

 numerous, crowded in a single laver. or occasionallv one Iving 



O > t/ / O 



above another, globose, ovate, or irregular in shape from mutual press- 

 ure, with lone- cylindrical necks terminating in the thickly crowded, 



t/ */ 



more or less* elongated, sometimes curved, rough, wrinkled, shining- 

 black, erumpent ostiola. Asci narrow clavate-cylindrical, sessile, 8- 

 spored, 80-110x15-17 //.* S}oridia filiform, slightly curved, with 

 several oil globules, faintly 6-7-septate, hyaline, 60-85x3-4 /*. 



On chestnut and oak wood, Carolina (Schw. & Ravenel), on Pop- 

 nl us tremuloides, Pennsylvania (Michener). 



We have no American specimens of this, and take the diagnosis* 

 from Winter's Pilze. 



31. platyromn, B. & C, Grev. XIII, p. 103. 



Perithecia botryoid-aggregated r erumpent, subeffused, rarely free, 



