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yellow and appearing pruinose, color often changing in dried 

 specimens, surface scarcely wrinkled when dry, punctate with 

 the slightly protruding necks of the perithecia filled with dark 

 colored spores ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores subelliptical or 

 cubical, smoky-brown, with 1-2 oil-drops, 5-7 X 4-5 mic. simple 

 or occasionally obscurely i-septate (pi. 20, f. 14-1^). 



On decaying wood and bark. 



Type locality : Iowa. 



Distribution : Iowa and Jamaica. 



Specimens examined: Iowa, Holway (type) ; Jamaica, Mur- 

 rill 636, 736. 



2. Chromocreopsis hirsuta (Ellis & Everh.) 

 Hypocrca hirsuta Ellis & Everh. ; Smith, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. 



St. Univ. Iowa 2 : 397. 1893. 



Stromata gregarious or crowded, subhemisplierical, coriaceous- 

 carnose, 2-3 mm. in diameter, discoid, obsoletely margined, 

 brown, yellowish-white inside, contracted below, centrally at- 

 tached, clothed with brown, bristle-like, septate hairs 100-200 X 

 4 mic, convex or plane above and slightly roughened by the 

 necks of the perithecia ; perithecia buried in the stroma, ovate, 

 about 5 mm. high ; asci clavate-cylindrical, swollen at the tip, 

 100 X 10 mic. ; spores navicular-oblong or unequally elliptical, 

 brown, 7-8 X 3-3-5 mic. 



On bark. 



Type locality: Central America. 



Distribution : Known only from type locality. 



Specimens examined: Nicaragua, B. Shimek 80. 



3. Chromocreopsis bicolor (Ellis & Everh.) 

 Hypocrea bicolor Ellis & Everh. Jour. Myc. 4: 58. 1888. 



Stromata gregarious or closely crowded, subpatellate or ir- 

 regular from mutual pressure, slightly convex, 1-3 mm. in di- 

 ameter, cinereous, becoming dull brownish-black, white within, 

 margin free, upper surface wrinkled when dry and punctate with 

 the necks of the perithecia ; perithecia subglobose, about .5 mm. 

 in diameter; asci cylindrical, 70X5 mic, 8-spored; spores i- 

 seriate, elliptical, with 2 oil-drops, smoky-brown, 5 X 2-3 mic. 



On decaying wood. 



Type locality: Manhattan, Kansas. 



