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" ]\Ir. Phillips figures the sporidia as being uniseptate. I was 

 unable to make out any septum, but the specimens examined may 

 have been less mature than Mr. Phillips'." 



The erumpent character of the perithecia of the above species 

 and' the i-septate spores would place it in the genus Nectriella. 

 No specimen of this species has been examined by the writer. 



3. Eleuthromyces Fuckel, Symb. ]\ryc. 183. 1869 



Perithecia free on the substratum, globose or subglobose, con- 

 tinued into a long neck, brownish or amber ; substance soft ; asci 

 cylindrical, 4-8-spored ; spores simple, fusiform, continued into 

 a more or less bristle-like apex at either end. 



Type species : Eleuthromyces suhulatus Fuckel. 

 Distinguished from Psetidonectria by the flask-shaped peri- 

 thecia and the appendiculate spores. 



Perithecia large, 500 mic.-i mm. high. i. E. subiilafus. 



Perithecia small, 150-180 mic. high. 2. E. Geoglossi. 



I. Eleuthromyces subulatus Fuckel, 

 Symb. Myc. 183. 1869 



fClavaria hrackiata Batsch, Elench. Fung. Cont. i : 234. 1786. 



Sphaeria siibidata Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: 44. 1791. 



Isaria hrachiata Schum. PI. Saell. 2 : 443. 1803. 

 Sphaeronema stibulatnm Fries, Syst. Myc. 2 : 536. 1822. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, subglobose below, tapering 

 into a long neck, smooth or nearly so, yellowish or amber, 200- 

 300 mic. in diameter at the base and 500 mic.-i mm. high ; asci 

 cylindrical, fusoid, 8-spored, about 50 X 2-3 mic. ; spores simple, 

 elongated, averaging 4X2 mic, tapering into a bristle-like ap- 

 pendage of variable length at either end (pi. 4. f. 12, Jj). 



On partially decayed fungi. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution : Ontario. 



Illustrations: Batsch, Elench. Fung. Cont. i: pi. 28. f. 163; 

 Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2. pi. 13. f. 117; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. i^: /. 238, 

 D-E; Nees, Syst. pi. 43. f. 345, B; Winter; Rab. Krypt. Fl. i^: 

 84. /. 1-4. 



Specimens examined: Ontario (no name). 



Recognized by the very large perithecia. 



