572 



often '2-(> inn), long and so elevated in the center as to become conical. 

 Rather rare on "lead stems of Smilax rotund/folia, Salem, N. C. 

 Sporidia (sec. Cke. Grev. XIII, p. 37) allantoid, 12-14 // long. 



I), snbferrnginea, B. & Rav. in Rav. Fungi Car. IV, No. 44. 



Exsicc. Ell. & Evrht. N. A. F. 26. Ser. 1558. 



Sfromata scattered or subseriately confluent, conical from a sub-- 

 orbicular base, 1-3 mm. diam., black on the outside, composed inside 

 of the scarcely altered substance of the bark, the apex splitting the 

 epidermis in a sublaciniate manner, but scarcely raising it into pus- 

 tules. Perithecia 8-20 in a stroma, small (about 200 p diam.), brown, 

 buried in the bottom of the stroma. Ostiola short-cylindrical or elon- 

 gated, (50-250 p. long), smooth at the apex. Asci not well made out. 

 Sporidia (free spores) allantoid, nearly hyaline, 5-6 x 1-1 J /*, only 

 slightly curved. 



On bark of dead oak, South Carolina (Ravenel). 



The stroma is entirely wanting below. 



D. Ceanothi, Cke. & Hark. Grev. XIII, p. 17. 



Stroma ta wart-like, innate-erumpent, black, round, closely sur- 

 rounded by the ruptured epidermis, black within. Perithecia com- 

 pressed and of various shapes. Ostiola short, stellate-sulcate. Asci 

 clavate, 8-spored. Sporidia cylindrical, curved, rounded at the ends, 

 yellowish-hyaline, 12-14 x 2 /*. 



On branches of Ceanotkus, California (Harkness), 



D. capnostoma, B. & Rav. in Rav. Fungi Car. IV, No. 42. 



Stromata scattered, small (1 mm.), erumpent, not circumscribed. 

 Perithecia few (3-6), globose, black, not deeply buried, rather less 

 than | mm. diam., necks short, with prominent, short-cylindrical, per 

 forated ostiola, piercing the slightly pustulate epidermis together. 

 Asci stipitate, p. sp. 25-30x4 p. Sporidia subbiseriate, 8 in an ascus, 

 allantoid, slightly curved, yellowish-hyaline, 5-7 xlj //. 



On dead limbs of Morus, South Carolina (Ravenel). 



The strpmatic material in which the perithecia lie is very scanty,, 

 and of a dark color. Diifers from D. infuscans, E. & E., in its cylin- 

 drical ostiola. 



D. Calficarpse, B. & Rav. in Rav. Fungi Car. IV, No. 41. 



Stromata thickly scattered, small, (1-1 1 mm.), conic-hemispherical, 

 erumpent, white inside, not circumscribed, Perithecia 3-8, about J 



