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colored tint. Asci cylindric-filiform, rather long attenuate-stipitatc 

 below, 100-1 15 x3J a (p. sp. 50-60 x3-3| //), 8-spored, paraphyses 

 none. Sporidia directly or obliquely uniseriate, oblong-ellipsoid or 

 sul (cylindrical, 6-8 x 2-2 | ^, straight, with a nucleus in each end. 

 hyaline. Sperrnogonia in similar perithecia, but more superficial; 

 spcrmatia cylindrical, hyaline, 8-10x2 //. 



APIOSPORA, Sacc. 



Consp. Geii. Pyr. p. 9, Syll. I, p. 539. 



Perithecia covered, membranaceous, globulose, connected by a 

 dark colored pseudostroma. Asci 8-spored. with paraphyses more or 

 less distinct. Sporidia clavate-subpyrifonn, attenuated and often 

 curved below, faintly uniseptate near the lower end, hyaline or yel- 

 lowish. 



Mostly growing on grasses. 



A. Montagnei, Sacc. F. Ven. Ser. II, p. 306. 



Sphceria apiospora, Dur. & Mont. Fl. Alg. I, p. 492, tab. 25, fig. i. 

 Hypopteris apiospora, Berk. Dec. Fungi, 485. 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. E- 3157. 



Seriate-erumpent l)lack,. 300 fj. diani. Perithecia comparatively 

 large, globose, uniseriate in longitudinal cracks in the epidermis, white 

 inside, connected by a dark-colored pseudostroma. Ostiola hemis- 

 pherical, timbilicate. Asci clavate or oblong, 70-90x15-20 JUL. Spo- 

 ridia biseriate. ovate-oblong, appendiculate-pyriform, 20-25 x 8-10 //.. 



On culms of Arundinaria^ in the Southern States. 



Specc. from Louisiana have asci 100-110x25-30 //; sporidia 

 35-^0 x 10 fjLj but specc. from Alabama have asci and sporidia agree- 

 ing with the measurements in Sacc. Syll. 



A. Polypori, E. & E. (in Herb.) 







Perithecia scattered, erumpent. convex-hemispherical, about 200 p. 

 diam., black, carbonaceo-rnembranaceous. Ostiolum papilliform, soon 

 perforated. Asci oblong, obtuse, nearly sessile, 40-45x10-12 p, 

 overtopped by the abundant linear paraphyses. Sporidia crowded- 

 biseriate, ovate-oblong, slightly curved or subinequilateral, aliout 

 12 x4 //, hyaline and at length with a single septum nearer the narrow 

 end. 



On old Fome^ applanatus. Newark, Delaware (Commons). 



