JAN. 1896. FLORA OF W. VIRGINIA MILLSPAUGH & NUTTALL. 145 



Epiphyllous, stroma carnose, scattered, sub-hemispherical or 

 depressed-turbinate, i to 2 mm. diameter, of a yellowish gray 

 color, subtruncate above and obscurely margined (when mature). 

 Perithecia buried in the stroma, ovate, membranaceous, no to 

 150 i*. diameter. Ostiola hemispherical, prominent, black, broadly 

 perforated and sometimes coHapsed. Asci clavate-cylindrical, p. 

 sp. 40 to 45 x 7 to 8 ij., short-stipitate, filiform-paraphysate, 8- 

 spored. Sporidia biseriate, oblong-fusoid, yellowish-hyaline, 

 uniseptate, slightly constricted at the septum, obtusely pointed, 

 at the ends, 10 to 12 x 3 to 3.5 /JL. 



H. viridans B. & C. seems to differ in its hidden ostiolai 

 (ostiolis latitantibus). 



H. tenerrima E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 442 (1893). 



TYPE HABITAT: Incrusting moss, leaves, twigs, living Gaul- 

 theria procumbens, etc. July 1893 (Nuttall, discov. 1138, 123). 



Perithecia gregarious, minute (. 16 mm.), clothed (except the 

 black apex) with a thin white tomentum, seated on a thin 

 snow-white, tomentose-arachnoid subiculum. Asci cylindrical, 

 40 x 3 AI, without paraphyses, 8-spored. Sporidia uniseriate, 

 oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 5 to 6 x 2 /*, with a single nucleus in 

 the centre (becoming uniseptate)? 



This is closely allied to H. subcarnea E. & E., but differs in 

 the color of the subiculum, the black apex of the perithecia, the 

 narrower asci, and rather longer sporidia. 



HYPOCREOPSIS Karst. 



H. riccoidea (Bolt.) Karst. 



On Kalmia latifolia, alt. 2,000 ft. , Aug. 24, 1893. Spores ap- 

 parently moniliform (Nuttall, 1178). 



GIBBERELLA Sacc. 



Q. Saubiuetii (Mont.) Sacc. 



On Asparagus officinalis, Nov. i, 1893 (Nuttall, 1243, 190). 



BROOMELLA Sacc. 



B. Ravenelii (Berk.) Sacc. 



On Acer rubrum, April 4, 1894 (Nuttall, 1461, 439). 



PLEONECTRIA Sacc. 



P. Missouriensis (E. & E.) 



On dead stick, March 10, 1893 (Nut tall, 871). 



CORDYCEPS Fries. 



C. militaris (Linn.) Link. 



In laurel thicket on ground, Aug. 12, 1893, Keeney's Creek 

 (Xuttal/, 1205, 161). 



