82 Mycologia 



On leaves of Gesneria. No specimen seen. 



Hypomyces asterophorus Tu\. Fung. Carp. 3: 55. 1865. Perfect 

 fruit not known from N. America. 



Sphaeria holeticola Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 210. 1832. 



No specimen could be found in the Schweinitz collection at 



Philadelphia. 

 Hypomyces ochraceus (Pers.) Tul. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 13: 12. 



The specimens of this species reported from N. America do 



not conform with the original description. No specimen of 



the type could be found at Leiden. 



Hypomyces apiosporus Cooke, Grevillea 12 : 80. 1884. No 

 specimen at Kew. Description suggests Hypomyces hyalinus 

 (Schw.) Tul. 



Hypomyces tegillum Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 4: 15. 1875. De- 

 scribed from immature material. 



31. Hypocreopsis Karsten, Myc. Fenn. 2: 251. 1873 

 Dozya Karsten, Myc. Fenn. 2: 28. 1873 (homonym). 



Stroma tubercular, fleshy, effused, lobate or stellate, superficial ; 

 perithecia immersed; asci 8-spored; spores elliptical, usually i- 

 septate, hyaline, cells not separating. 



Type species : Sphaeria riccioidia Bolton. 



Distinguished from Hypocrca by the 8-spored asci. 



Stroma stellately lobed or branched. i. H. lichenoides. 

 Stroma not stellately branched or lobed. 



Stroma effused, on Tremella. 2. H. tremellicola. 



Stroma patellate, on dead wood. 3. H. consimilis. 



I. Hypocreopsis lichenoides (Tode) 

 Acrospermum lichenoides Tode, Fung. Meckl. i : 9. 1790. 

 Sphaeria riccioidia Bolton, Fungi Halifax 4: 182. 1791. 

 Sphaeria parmelioides Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 6: 333. 1836. 

 Hypocrea parmelioides Mont. Syll. 210. 1856. 

 Hypocrca riccioidea Berk. Outl. Brit. Fungi 383. i860. 

 Dozya riccioidea Karst. Myc. Fenn. 2: 221. 1873. 

 Hypocreopsis riccioidea Karst. Myc. Fenn. 2 : 251. 1873. 

 Hypocrea digitata Ellis & Everh. Jour. Myc. i : 42. 1885. 



Stroma radiating from a common center and consisting of 

 several much-divided branches or lol)es which extend entirely 



