268 FETCH : 



Aschersonia carpinicola E. & D.. Proc. Canad. Inst. 

 (1897), p. 63. 



This was described as " Stromate convexo, eninipente, 2 mm. 

 circ, ccrtice interiore iiinato, epidermide lacerata laxe ciiicto, 

 vivo carnuloso, succineo, sicco obscure rufescente, facile deciduo ; 

 peritheoiis minutis stromate immersis, ostiolis papillatis atris 

 ermiapentibus ; sporulis ellipticis hyalinis, 15-20 x 6-8 [x 

 basidiis brevibus. In cortice emortuo Carpini americanae, 

 London et Dorchester, Canada. 



The mode of growth described is totally different from that of 

 Aschersonia. Professor R. Thaxter informs me that it has been 

 correctly referred to Disciila Peckiana Sacc. by Farlow, in Bibl. 

 Index N. A. Fungi. 



AschersoniaHenningsiiKoord.,Bot.Untersuch.(1907),p.213. 



Koorder's figure shows multiseptate spores, from which it is 

 evident that his fungus was not Aschersonia. Only a minute 

 fragment now remains of the type specimen, bvit it is clear from 

 the remnant that it is the " Microcera" very commonly found 

 on the scale insects, Aspidiotus, Aonidia, &c., in the tropics. 

 This species has since been named Microcera Fujikuroi by Miyabe 

 and Sawada. Its structure differs from that of Microcera proper, 

 and it is proposed to institute for it a new genus, Pseudomi- 

 crocera. Tlie species will then stand as Pseudomicrocera Hen- 

 ningsii. 



Aschersonia zeylanica Berk., in Herb. Kew. 



This is a purple-red lenticular stroma common on scale insects 

 in the Eastern tropics. It is cirovdar, up to -1 mm. diameter, and 

 about 0- 75 mm. thick in the centre. All specimens seen up to 

 the present have been sterile. Its hyphse differ from those of 

 Aschersonia. " Aschersonia sp. indet." on Saccopetalum, Coll. 

 Koorders, Java, in Herb. Berlin, is apparently the same thing. 



Aschersonia rufa (B. & Br.) Sacc, Sylloge Fungorum, III., 



p. 619 ; Myrosporium rufum B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, XIV., 



p. 85. 



The type consists of minute, flattened, pulvinate, somewhat 

 irregular stromata. It was described as " Placentjeforme.. 

 rufum, nitidum, coUabens ; siaoris subellipticis." Sections show 

 that the " stroma" consists of a mass of irregularly-oval, spore- 

 like bodies, about 12 x 10 \^. 



Aschersoniopsis globosa P. Henn. 



As already recorded by von Hohnel ( 4nn. Myc, IX., p. 171 ) 

 this belongs to Munkia Speg. This is true of the type (E. Ule. 

 788), as well as of Puttemans 792, in Herb. Berlin. 



Aschersonia macularis Sydow, Philippine Journal of Science, 

 IX., Sec. C, p. 187 (1914).—" Stromatibus epiphyllis, in 

 maculis flavo-brunneolis usque 1 cm. diam., plus minus 



