520 



The specimens agree >o well with the description of E. macros- 

 totiia, Fckl., tliat there can be hardly any doubt that they are refer- 

 able to that species. The habitat and continuous sporidia separate 

 this' from E. ]xir<iUela, (Fr.), and the sphseroid, not pezizoid ostiola 

 would seem to separate it from E. operculata, (A. <fc S.), if, in fact, 

 E . macrostoma is really distinct from E '. operculata. 



** Sporidia one- or more-septate (Kalmusia). 

 E. parallela, (Fr.) 



Sphtzria parallela, Fr. S. M, II, p. 373. 

 Sphtzria uda, Schuru. Enum. plant. Ssell. II, p. 161. 

 Eutypa parallela, Karst. Mycol. Fenn. II, p. 130. 

 Valsa parallela, Nits. Pyr. Germ. p. 154. 

 Endoxyla parallela, Fckl. Symb. Nachtr. I, p. 322. 

 Kxsicc. Rab. F. E. 1244. EH. N. A. F. qg (specc. on pine), id. 194. 



Perithecia tolerably large, sunk in the unaltered substance of the 

 wood, mostly crowded in small, subconfluent groups forming parallel 

 series or lines, abruptly contracted into short, slender necks terminat- 

 ing in small, slightly thickened, globose, entire, smooth, black ostiola 

 crowded in small, superficial groups, finally perforated. Asci narrow- 

 clavate, long-stipitate, 8-spored, p. sp. 50-60 x 6-7 //. Sporidia sub- 

 biseriate, allantoid, moderately curved, brownish or olivaceous, 2-3- 

 nucleate, becoming uniseptate, 10-14x3 p.. 



On decaying pine wood, Newfield, N. J. 



In the New Jersey specc., as well as those in our Fieri), from 

 Karsten, and specc. from Fries (com. by Cooke), and the spec, in Herb. 

 A cad. Nat. Sci. at Philada. (from Fries), the sporidia become uni- 

 septate. 



E. eutypoides, (E. & E.) 



Thyridaria eutypoides, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 78, 



Perithecia minute (110-120 /j. diameter), immersed, scattered 

 quite uniformly through the blackened and subcarbonized substance of 

 the bark, but lying mostly near the surface, and here and there col- 

 lected in valsiform groups. Ostiola short-cylindrical, with a round 

 opening at the subtruncate and slightly swollen apex, and so numerous 

 as to appear under the lens like a fine black- pubescence. Asci (p. sp.) 

 about 35x7 ,, or with the short, stipe-like base 40-45 /j. long, sur- 

 rounded with abundant, filiform paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate. ob- 

 long or clavate oblong, 3-septate and slightly constricted at the septa, 

 olive-brown, slightly curved, ends subobtuse, 10-12 x 2 J-3 p. 



On bark of decaying Melia. Louisiana (Langlois). 



E. iuusta, (Cke.) 



Sphczria inusta, Cke. Grev. VII, p. 53. 

 Kalinnsia inusta, Sacc. Syll, 3378. 

 Xylosphtevia inusta, Cke. Syn. 3973. 



