No. 18.] [December, 1873. 



(bxtvilUu, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 

 AND ITS LITERATURE. 



NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 

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



(Continued from Page 53.) 



376. Phoma macropus. B. $ C— Subcuticular, peritheciis spar- 

 sis ; 6porophoris flexuosis sporis oblongis 5-6 longioribus. 

 On the white shoots of some shrub. Scattered, tearing off with 

 the cuticle ; scattered, collapsed ; sporophores waved, 5-6 times 

 longer than the short oblong spores. Nearly allied to the last, but 

 distinct. 



377. Phoma Petexsii. B. cj- C. — Erumpens, clemum superficiale, 

 hysteriiforme in lignum dealbatum situm, sporis ellipticis,binucleatis. 

 On wood which has been exposed to the weather, and has become 

 bleached. Alabama, Peters. No. 523-4. 



Scattered, hysteriiform, erumpent, then free ; spores elliptic, 

 •0003 long, with two nuclei. Distinct from Phoma epileucum, B., 

 in which the spores are -00015 long, and not so elliptic. 



378. Phoma citrulli. B. $ C. — Deplanatum superficiale, sporo- 

 phoris sporis fusiformibus bi-trinucleatis brevioribus. On seeds of 

 watermelon. Car. Inf. No. 5031. 



Flat, superficial, sporophores shorter than the fusiform 2-3 nu- 

 cleate spores, -0008 long. 



379. Phoma cucuxbitale. B. Sf C— Spar sum deplanatum nitidum ; 

 sporis breviter oblongis binucleatis minutis. On seeds of water 

 melon. 



Scattered, shining, flat ; spores minute, oblong, binucleate, 

 •0002-00025 long. 



380. Phoma ampelinum. B. § C— Subcuticular hysteriiforme, 

 sporis fusiformibus. On shoots of vine. Pennsylvania, Michener. 

 No. 4094. 



Growing beneath the cuticle which swells into little hysteriiform 

 pustules ; spores oblong, subfusiform, *0005 long. 



381. Phoma pallens. B. $ C— Subcuticular hysteriiforme ; 

 sporophoris sporis utrinque apiculatis sub-fiequalibus. On shoots 

 of vine which it renders pallid. Car. Inf. No. 5015. Also on 

 Celastrum scandens. Penn. Michener. No. 4127. 



