No. 27.] [March, 1876. 



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A QUAETEELT EECOED OF CEYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 

 AND ITS LITEEATUEE. 



NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 

 By the Rev, M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



(Continued from page 64.) 

 CHEiRoanrcES. B. 4' C. 

 Sporje digitatEe e pulviniilo papillate oriundee. 



601. Cheiromyces stillatus. B. & C, — Berk. Crypt. Bot. cum 

 icone. 



On Scirpus Erioj)}wrus. Pennsylvania, Michener. No. 4883. 

 Alabama, Beanmont. No, 5087. 



On a Sphtsropsis. Forming little specks, which consist of a 

 cellular papillose cushion, to which are fixed the digitate spores, 

 •0006 long. The divisions, which are obtuse, vary from two to five, 

 and are sometimes waved. 



Stigmatella. B. ^ C. 



Receptaculum e floccis flexuosis compactum ; sporse magnse 

 pedicellatse termiuales. 



602. Stigmatella auzantiaca. B. Sf C— Berk. Crypt. Bot., p. J313, 

 cum icone. 



On Sphceria Hibisci. Car. Inf. No. 2665. Ravenel. No. 

 1328. On Lichen. 



Minute, bright orange ; stem short, rather thick, composed of 

 flexuous threads; spores large, subgiobose, with a short pedicel, 

 foiming a little group at the top of the stem. 



603. Volutella pulchza. B. d- C— Apotheciifonnis, subtus mar- 

 gineque alba ciliata, supra rufula, sporis ellipticis. 



On branches of willow. Connecticut. No. 5629. 



Resembling the apothecia of some Lichen, scattered or con- 

 fluent, white beneath, ciliated with short hairs; disc carneo-rufous, 

 with a white margin ; spores elliptic, '00025 long. 



* Fusazium latexitium.— On various plants. On Moras multi- 

 caulis. Car. Sup. No. 282. Car. Inf. No. 3029. Ravenel. 

 No. 1183. On beech. Ohio. 



604. Fusaxium marginatum. B. Sf C— Disco irregulari cameo, 

 albo-marginato ; sporis minutis oblongis. 



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