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distincte margiuatum, ibique perithecia plura stipitata atque fila- 

 menta indivisa, septata, sterilia exserens. Perithecia asymmetrica, 

 apice inclinato, appendiculata, stipite indiviso, septato apice rotun- 



dato-inflato suffulta. Asci Sporidia hyalina, fusoidea, asym- 



metrice 1-septata, muco obvoluta. 



1. Zodiomyces Vorticellariae Thaxt. 1. c, — Lividus, centro flavicans, ^^^ 

 basi purpurascens; receptaculo tubjeformi 225-400:^100-185 (abs- 

 que peritheciis et filamentis); peritheciis 55 :s 15-18, appendicibus 

 auriformibus 15-30 =; 5, lateralibus 50 s 3; stipite 35-50^5 3,5-4, fi« 

 lamentis sterilibus 200 s 3-4; sporidiis 45^2,5-3. 



Hab. in cruribus Hydrocombi lacustris, Connecticut 

 Amer. bor. 



HESPEROMYCES Thaxt. Suppl. Not. Laboulb. p. 264 (Etym. hespera 

 serum et myces). — Perithecia asymmetrica, transverse ter con- 

 stricta, apice abrupte conico, appendiculato praedita, cellulis binis 

 suffulta. Receptaculura tricellulare, una cellula basilaris, superse 

 binse; quarum externa appendicem autheridialem, interna perithe- 

 cium stipitatum gerit. Appendix antheridialis simplex, cylindrica, 

 septata, uno latere 1-seriatim denticulata. Afflnis Sligmatomyoeti, 



1. Hesperomyces virescens Thaxt. 1. c. — Flavido-virens, recepta- 4450 

 culo 75x30; perithecio 250-260^66, appendicibus longioribus 40- 

 45 \j.. long. ; sporidiis fusoideis l-(pluri?)-septatis, 65:^6. 



Hab. in coleoptero Chilocoro bivulnero in California. 



CANTHAROMYCES Thaxt. N. Am. Laboulb. p. 9 [1890] (Etyra. can- 

 iharos scarabaeus et myces). — Receptaculum simpiex vel supra 

 cellulam supra-basilarem compositum, divisionibus una vel pluri» 

 bus perithecium singulum gerentibus. Pseudoparaphyses una vel 

 plures, e cellula supra-basilari orientes. Perithecium medium, in 

 apicem symmetricum atteuuatum. 



1. Cantharomyces verticiliatus Thaxt. \. c. — Pallide flavus; peri- 4451 

 thecio basi leniter dilatato, versus apicem conico-subtruncatura at- 

 tenuato, 90-127 s 18-26 ; pseudoparaphysibus 2-4 e cellula minuta 

 supra-basilari verticillatum orientibus, simplicibus v. vamosis, semel 

 V. bis ad septa constrictis, 50-125 a. long., articulis brevibus ob- 

 tusisj pseudoparaphysi unica ex articulis teretibus vix constrictis 

 composita ex tertia cellula basilari; sporidiis fusoideis, simulate 1- 

 septatis, 18-20 5 3 (intra perithecium tantum visis). 



