489 



En. capillata, E. & E. Joarn. Mycol. IV. p. 74. 



Stromata pustuliform, 2-3 mm. diam., numerous and closely con- 

 tiguous for 5-20 cm., blackening and carbonizing the bark, and bounded 

 by a black line which penetrates the wood, but not deeply. Perithecia 

 membranaceous. thick-walled, black and shining within (when dry) 

 6-12 in a group, not distinctly circinating, J-| mm. diam., their ban- 

 slightly sunk in the wood. Ostiola capillary, very long (|-1 cm.). 

 crooked, rough, brittle (readily breaking square off when dry), apices 

 rounded and 4-5-sulcate, altogether resembling a mass of black, strigose 

 coarse hair covering the matrix with a nearly continuous coat. Asci 

 clavate, truncate above. 1 5 x3J ju (p. sp.), with a slender base about 15 ft 

 long, without paraphyses. Sporidia 8, crowded, yellowish in the mass, 

 <trongly curved, with a nucleus in each end. about 3Jx| /JL. In its 

 smaller sporidia and very long ostiola, this appeal's distinct from Ev- 

 typelhi Bonariensis, Spc-g.. and from Valxa $copari<t. Schw. Var. 

 subsimplex has the perithecia larger (J-J mm.), more deeply buried in 

 the wood, and only 1-2 in a stroma. which is rounded and protuberant 

 like the perithecia of some large, suberumpent, simple Sphceria. 



On decaying limbs lying on the "-round, St Martinsville, La 

 ' Langloisi. 



En. deiista, (E. & E,) 



Valsa deusta, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. I\ T , p. 64, 



Perithecia 4-6 together, sunk in the surface of the wood, with 

 thick, menibranaceous walls, shining-black inside (when dry), raising 

 the bark into distinct pustules. Ostiola erumpent in a compact fascicle, 

 short-cylindrical (| mm.), obtuse, quadrisulcate. Asci (p. sp.) clavate. 

 about 15x4/>. Sporidia crowded, 8 in an ascus, allantoid. strongly 

 curved, minute (3J-4x |-| //). The cuticle is soon thrown off, leaving 

 the exposed surface of the inner bark uniformly blackened. 



On decaying limbs of Curyr.t, Louisiana (Langlois). 



Eu. stellulata, (Fr.) 



Spluzria stellulata, Fr. S. M. II, p. 380. 



Eutypella stellulata, Sacc. Syll. 571. 



Valsa ventnosa, C. &. E. Grev. VI, p. 93. 



Valsa tnmimerabilis, Pk. 3oth Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p 



Valsa tetraploa, B. & C. Grev. V, p. 55. 



Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 597. Kze. F. Sel. 146. Rab. F. E. 1535. EH. N. A. F 178 - %$ 

 Rav. F. Am. 190, 361. 362, 663. Plowr. F. Brit. 42. Lin. F. Hung. 175. Kriegr. 

 F. Sax. 430. Sydow. M. March. 760. Rehm Asc. 730. Vize Micr. Fungi, 

 Roum. F. Gall. 5348. 



Stromata obtusely conical or subspherical, rarely ^iibctln-e-1, 1-2 

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