NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 47 



Sphaerostilbe coccophila. Tiil.l, c. p. 105.— On Alnus scrnilata. 

 Pennsylvania, Michener. No. 4316. 



It is not quite certain that this is Tulasne's species. The conidia 

 are those ol an Atractium, '002 long. 



* Sphaerostilbe flammea. Tiil. I. c. p. 1U4.— On Acer rubriim. Car. 

 Inf. Eavenel. No. 1843. 



There is a very distinct species on Magnolia glauca. Car. Inf. 

 No. 5005 {Atractium pallidum) B. & C, with short fusiform spores, 

 •0005 inch long, Avith the eudochrome retracted to either end; also 

 Ravenel, No. 976 and 1433. On Parmelia and Frullania Virgi- 

 nica, which may possibly be the conidiiferous form of Nectria 

 inuscivora. 



* Cucurbitaria elongata. Grer.—0\\ Rohinia. Mountains of 

 Virginia. No. 3307, 3323. New York, Sartwell. No. 3624. On 

 Gleditschia. No. 5974. Car. Sup. No. 841. 



* Cucuzbitaria Gleditschiae. &An-dn.— Car. Sup. No. 841,942. 

 Sporidia ovate, uniseptate. 



* Cucurbitazia Berbezidis. T^^l. — New England, Eussell. No. 

 5961,5980. 



* Cucuzbitazia tumozum. Schwein. — Canada, Poe, No. 6141. 



821. Cucuzbitazia callista. B. cf* C. — Effusa, peritheciis in crustam 

 fuscaminsidentibusprimum globosis deincollapsis; sporidiis miuutis 

 allantoideis. 



On Hornbeam. No. 342. 



Forming a continuous effused patch ; perithecia seated on a 

 brown crust, at first globose, then collapsed ; sporidia minute, 

 sausage-shaped. 



822. Cucuzbitazia bzevibazbata. B. ^f C. — Csespitosa globosanec 

 collapsa minutissime tomentosa ; ascis clavatis I'aretis ; sporidiis 

 allantoideis. 



823. Xylazia Titan. B. d; C — Gigantea allantoidea dura extus 

 albida ; ostiolis nigris prominentibus. 



Texas, Liudheimer, No. 2676. 



Five inches long, 2 inches wide, sausage-shaped, convex on one 

 side, hollow on the other ; hard, solid, dirty-white, stained with the 

 sporidia and dotted with the prominent ostiola. 



824. Xylazia cudonia. B. §■ C. — Sublaccata ; stipite curto siirsum 

 dilatato ; capitulo hemispherico e peritheciis papillato ; ostiolis 

 minimis. 



On a dead tree. Car. Inf. Santee Canal, No. 3220. 



Slightly laccate, shining; stem ^^ inch long, nearly 2 lines 

 thick above ; head semiglobose, -^ inch across, slightly papillose 

 from the projection of the perithecia; ostiola very small. 



825. Xylazia clavulus. B. S,' C— Parva seriata ; stipite brevi 

 crassiu8Culo penetrante ; capitulo convexo. 



On the dead stem of some grass. Texas, C. Wright, No. 3150. 



