SPH^EIACET. 



933 



Gen. 367. 



CAFNODIUM, Mont. 



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Fig. 407. 



Parasitic. Mycelium creeping, 

 black ; perithecia elongated, often 

 branched, composed of confiuent 

 threads, with the tips often free at 

 the apex. (^^9- -iOT.) 



* Peridia more or less branched. 



2806. Capnodium elongatum. 



B. d' Desm. '' Elongated 

 Capnodium." 



Setose. Peridia elongated, acumi- 

 nate, generally simple, orifice mostly 

 fimbriated ; sporidia 2-3 septate, 

 articulations at length constricted, 

 and divided longitudinally. — Berk. 

 ^' Desm. Journ. Hort. Soc. \Y.p. 251, 

 f. 5. Curtis N.A.exs. no. 1634. B. ^* 

 Br.Ann.N.H.no.'dO^). 



On spurs of living pear trees. Cornwall. [S. Carolina.] 



Forming a scattered setose black stratum; mycelium moniliform. Several 

 species of this genus are found in the United States., {Fig. 40".) 



** Peridia simple, subulate (Microxiphium, Harv.) 



2 307. Capnodium Footii. Be7'k. di Desm. 



Capnodium." 



" Subulate 



Forming little suborbicular setulose patches ; mycelium sub- 

 gelatinous, hyaline, when old moniliform ; peridia dark, setiform; 

 outer coat hyaline, threads at first cylindrical, at length monili- 

 form ; asci and sporidia unknown. — Journ. Hort. Soc. iv.p. 251, 

 /. 10. Fumago fagi, Pers. M.E. i. p. 10. Microxiphium Footii^ 

 Harv. MSS. 



On leaves of evergreens, deciduous trees, as the beech, and 

 on herbaceous plants, as Mercurialis perennis. Common. 



Often accompanied on the leaves of evergreens by Sirigvla Babingtonii. 



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