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Mycologia 



Type locality : N. Jersey. 



Distribution : Known only from type locality. 



Illustrations: Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Pyrenom. pi. ii, f. 



8-9. 



Exsiccati : Ellis, N. Am. Fungi i^8. 



32. Oomyces Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 : 185. 1851 



Coscinaria Ellis & Everh. Jour. Myc. 2: 88. 1886. 



Perithecia few, vertical, contained in a membranaceous sac- 

 like structure; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores filiform, continu- 

 ous, hyaline, as long as the ascus. 



Type species : Sphaeria cameo-alba Libert. 



I. Oomyces Langloisii Ellis & Everh. Jour. Myc. 2: 88. 1886 

 Coscinaria Langloisii Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Pyrenom. 69. 1892. 



Stroma tuberculiform, erumpent, fleshy, .3-5 mm. in diameter, 

 pale carneus or horn-colored when fresh, becoming nearly black 

 when dry, of a rather close membranaceous texture on the sur- 

 face, softer within, surrounded by the ruptured epidermis, con- 

 vex above ; perithecia ovate, minute, with thin, transparent walls, 

 250-300X150-200 mic. ; asci cylindrical, 150-200X5 mic. ; 

 spores filiform, as long as the ascus, hyaline, continuous, i mic. 

 thick. 



On dead stems of Viyna luteola. 



Type locality: Louisiana. 



Distribution : Known only from type locality. 



Illustrations : Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Pyrenom. pi. j/, f. 5-p. 



Specimens examined: Louisiana, Langlois (type). 



33. Barya Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 93. 1869 



Perithecia fleshy, becoming hard in drying, seated in a loose 

 cottony conidia bearing mycelium; conidia oblong, obscurely i- 

 septate, obtuse at the ends ; asci elongated, lanceolate, tapering 

 above and bdow, with a globose apex; spores filiform, simple, 

 about as long as the ascus, hyaline. 



Type species : Barya parasitica Fuckel. 



Barya parasitica Fuckel. Symb. Myc. 93. 1869 



Perithecia gregarious almost crowded yellowish-white, sur- 

 rounded at the base with a white mycelial growtli giving the 



