Verpatinia 73 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 ExsicCATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi. 390. 



Specimens in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 

 Garden show excellent sclerotia and apothecia. 



10. VERPATINIA Whetzcl & Drayton, Mycologia 37: 



690. 1945. 



Stroma an elongated, black sclerotium of the discoid type 

 identical with that of Cibonnia, foliicolous, formed beneath the 

 cuticle of the host; conidial stage believed to be wanting. 



Apothecia arising from the sclerotia singly or in pairs, stipi- 

 tate, campanulate to cylindric or subturbinate; the hymenial 

 surface pitted or often longitudinally furrowed; asci 8-spored; 

 spores ellipsoid to fusiform. 



Type species, Verpatinia calthicola Whetzel. 



On old leaves of Caliha paltisiris. 1. V- calthicola. 



On old leaves of Betula lutea. 2. T^ duchesnayensis. 



1. Verpatinia calthicola Whetzel, Mycologia 37: 692. 1945. 



Stroma and sclerotia as above. 



Apothecia campanulate, or turbinate, 2 3 mm. long and 1-2 

 mm. thick, clay-colored to pale-brown, long-stipitate; stem 

 slender, slightly swollen at the base, 5-15 mm. long and .5 mm. 

 in diameter; asci cylindric, gradually tapering below, reaching a 

 length of 30-38 M and a diameter of 3 6 m; spores subellipsoid 

 with one side flattened, 2-3 X 6-10 m- 



On overwintering petioles of Caltha pahistris. 



Type locality: Ithaca, New York. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 37: 687./. 25-28. 



2. Verpatinia duchesnayensis Whetzel, Mycologia 37: 694. 



1945. 



Sclerotia elongated, at maturity as long as 25 mm. though 

 often much shorter, varying from short-fusiform in earh- stages 

 to long, slender-cylindric, rather abruptly tapering toward the 

 ends, dull to shining, formed in the midrib or one of the primary 

 ribs of the host. 



Apothecia, stipitate, arising singly, or in pairs from the em- 

 bedded sclerotium, cylindric to barrel-shaped, or turbinate, ap- 



