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rant, scattered or gregarious, sphseroid, perforated above, black, 100- 

 120 IJL diam. Asci short-pedicellate or subsessile, elongated or elon- 

 gate-clavate, rarely somewhat inflated below, 45-52 x 10-13 /JL. Spo- 

 ridia 8 in an ascus, biseriate, acicular-elongated, uniseptate in the 

 middle, not at all or only slightly constricted in the middle, hyaline 

 or greenish-hyaline, 14-19x3-5 //. 



On Antennaria alpina. (Greenland. 



S. Compositamm, Awd. Myc. Eur. Pyr. p. 15. fig. 105. 



Exsicc. Rab. F. Eur. 1558. 



Perithecia gregarious, innate, ovate, subacute, black, 100 /JL diam. 

 Asci gradually attenuated above from an ovate base, 8-spored, very 

 short-stipitate, 60-70 x 20-28 //. Sporidia 2-4-seriate-crowded, oblong, 

 rounded at tlie ends, uniseptate, constricted at the septum, hyaline. 

 24-27 x 7 ,. 



On dry stems of Taraxacum ceratophorum, Greenland. 



S. verfoascicola, (Schw.) 



Sph&ria ve> bascicola, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1726. 

 Exsicc. Rav. F. Am. 141 (spermogonia). Ell. N. A. F. 591 



Perithecia thickly scattered, minute (150-175 ,), covered by the 

 blackened cuticle, which is raised into distinct pustules over them. 

 Asci oblong or clavate, or sometimes attenuated above, sessile, 8-spored. 

 nbniit 40 x 6 //. without paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate, fusoid -oblong, 

 hyaline, unisoptate, constricted at the septum, 10-12 x 5-6 //. 



On dead stems of Verbascum Thapxu*. common. 



S. Pedicnlaris, Karst. Fungi Spetsb. No. 53. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, at first covered by the epi- 

 dermis, then protuberant, splueroid, subconoid-attenuated above, gla- 

 brous, black, 150 // diam. Asci subse-sile, elongated. 30-35x7 //. 

 8-spored. Snoridia biseriate. fusoid or acicular-elongated, straight or 



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sb'o'htlv curved, ffuttulate or uniseptate. hyaline or vellowish-hyaline, 



e / * 



12-18 x2J-8 ft. 



On Pedicularis hirsuta and P. lait<it<i, Greenland. 



S. trichophila, Karst. Myc. Fenn. II, p. 171. 



Perithecia gregarious, at first covered by the epidermis, then 

 erumpent, seated on a dark, filainentose subiculmn. sphaeroid, often 

 conoid at the vertex, and armed with rather long, black, spine-like 

 bristles, pierced above, black, scarcely papillate. Asci and sporidia as 

 in S. Tassiana. viz. 40-80x18-26 //.. and 17-26x5-9 //, respectively. 



