565 



This is placed, by Cooke in his Synopsis, in the Valsaria Section 

 of Melogramma (sporidia uniseptate, brown). The same thing appar- 

 ently is referred to by Berk. (Grey. IV, p. 47), as Cucurbitaria 

 Gleditschice, Schw., with the note- -" sporidia ovate, uniseptate." 



V. nudicollis, (B. & C.) 



Hypoxylon nudicolle, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 93. 

 Valsaria f nudicollis, Sacc. Syll. 2849. 



Perithecia connate, forming a continuous or slightly interrupted 

 tratum. Ostiola papilliform, black. Perithecia crowded, covered 

 with brownish matter. Asci linear. Sporidia uniseriate, oblong, 

 narrow, uniseptate. 



On pine wood, Carolina. 



DIATRYPE, Fr. 



Summa Veg. Sc. p. 384, emend. Nitschke Pyr. Gerui. p. 64. 



Stroma erumpeht-superficial, effused or discoid. Perithecia im- 

 mersed in the stroma, necks scarcely converging. Asci 8-spored. 

 ^poridia allantoid, small, mostly yellowish. 



D. stigma, (Hoff.) 



Sphceria stigma, Hoflf. Veg. Crypt. I, p. 7, tab. II, fig. 2. 



Sphceria decorticans, Sow. Eng. Fungi, II, tab. 137; III, tab. 371, fig. 3. 



Sph<zria undulata, Fr. S. M. II, p. 350. 



Sphatria decorticata, DC. Fl. Fr. II, p. 289. 



Diatrype Dearnessii, E. & F,., Ell. & Evrht. N. A. F. 2d Ser. 2526. 



Diatrype tennissima, Cke. in Rav. F. Am. 



Eutypa micropuncta, Cke. Grev. VI, p. 144. 



Sph&ria concolor, Schw. and Sphczria subcutanea, Wahl. in Herb. Schw. 



Diatrype undulata and stigma, Fr. Summa Veg. Sc. p. 385. 



Stictosphceria Hoffmanni, Tul. Sel. Carp. II, p. 49, tab. VI, figs. i-n. 



Diatrype stigma, De Not. Sfer. p. 26, tab. 25. 



9 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1043, 1044, 1047, 2263. Rab. F. E. 820, 2953. Rehm Asc. 220. Cke, 

 F. Brit. Ser. II, 417. Sydow, M. March. 191, 448, &c., &c. Ell. N. A. F. 491. 

 Rav. F. Am. 357 and 359. 



Stroma widely eifused, continuous or interrupted, often surround- 

 ing the limb, sometimes extending for several inches in length, at first 

 covered by the epidermis, finally exposed, brownish or dusty- white, 

 becoming darker or nearly black, whitish inside, definitely limited but 



a v / 



irregular in outline, j-1 mm. thick, sometimes undulate and of un- 

 equal thickness, the thinner parts then often sterile. Perithecia 

 monostichous, evenly distributed, ovate, small, with short necks and 

 punctiform, discoid, depressed-hemispherical or conical, entire or 

 -t-cleft ostiola. Asci clavate-oblong, 8-spored, p. sp. 30-50x4-8 t u. 

 Sporidia subbiseriate, allantoid, brownish, 6-9 x 1-1 1 t u: 6-12x1 J- 

 2 IJL, Sacc.; 6-12 (mostly 8)x 1 3 /*, Winter. 



