538 



Ps. profusa, (Fr.) 



Spheeria profusa, Fr. S. M. II, p. 



Splun ia in-rgitlai is, DC. Fl. Fr. VI, p. Il6, 

 S/>litzria anomia, Fr. (not Schw.) 1. c. p. 381. 



Vaha profusa, Fr. Bunima, p. 411. 



Mussaria seiridia, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 155. 



Aglaospora profusa, De Not. Micr. Ital. Dec. V, p. 5, No. 3. 



Valsa Sartwellii, B. & C. (in Herb.). 

 Spluzria ocellata, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1638. 



Sphceria aniorphostoma, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1334 (sec. specc. in Herb. Schw.J. 

 Pseudovalsa profusa, Winter, Die Pilze, II, p. 785. 



Kxsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 583. Rab. F. B. 733, 1137, 1441, 2514. Rehm Asc. 45. Sydow, M. 

 March. 176, 941. TJium. M. U. 969. EH. N. A. F. 172. 



Stromata scattered, numerous, subseriate and subcontinent, vari- 

 able in size and shape, pyramidal, pulvinate or hemispherical, round, 

 elliptical or elongated (on a transverse section), surface uneven or un- 

 dulate, black, paler inside, of tough, horn-like consistence, sunk in the 

 substance of the bark, enclosed in a rather thick, black layer, covered 

 bv the epidermis which is only slightly perforated, finally exposed by 

 the falling away of the bark. Perithecia 2-4 in a strorna, deeply 

 buried, globose or angular, contracted into a thick, irregular-shaped 

 neck, with short, black, obtuse ostiola eruinpent in a compact fascicle 

 but scarcely exserted. Asci cylindrical, short-stipitate, 4-spored, 180- 

 210x21-24 /*. Sporidia cylindrical, rounded at the ends, spuriously 

 4-celled, with a subtriangtdar nucleus in each cell, hvaline at first, 



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then clear brown. Paraphyses filiform, abundant. 



On dead limbs of Hobinia pseudacacia, common. 



Ps. Titan, (B. & Rav.) 



Diatrype Titan, B. & Rav. Grey. IV, p. 97. 



Pseudovalsa Titan, Cke. Syn. 2093. 



Titania Berkeleyi, Berlese Icones. tab. 37, fig. i. 



Pustules irregular, black, rough with the protruding ostiola, 

 minutely granulated. Asci (sec. Cke. L c.) 2-spored. Sporidia fusi- 

 form, obtuse at each end, dark, with about 6 septa, 100 p. long. 



On bark of hornbeam, South Carolina (Ravenel). 



Ps. haplocystis, (Berk. & Br,) 



Sphceria haplocystis, B. & Br. Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. II, p. 317'. 

 Haplocyslis Berkelcvi, Awd. in Fckl. F. Rh. 585. 

 Calospora haplocystis, Fckl. Symb. p. 191. 

 Pseudovalsa haplocystis, Saec. Mich. I, p. 44, 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. Eur. 1146. Cke. F. Brit. Ser. I, 253, Ser. II, 229. Roum. F. G. 4448,4449, 



Perithecia covered, subglobose, thin-walled, minutely tomentose, 

 permanently covered by the blackened epidermis which is raised into 

 slight pustules, depressed-globose, 4-10 together in subcircinate group?- 



