No. 24.] [June, 1874. 



ffirtvilUn. 



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 157.) 



402. Sphaeronema pruinosum. B. & C. — Erumpens cylindricum 

 apice globosum ; sporis oblongis hyalinis. 



On Rhus venenatus. Pennsylvania, Michener. No. 3492. 



Cylindrical. Bursting through the bark with its globose head, 

 pruinose with minute conidia, punctate below ; spores oblong, -0007- 

 •U01 long. 



402 (bis). Sphaeronema radula. B. § ft— Erumpens conicum 

 compressum ; apice truncatum ; sporis brevibus fusiformibus hya- 

 linis uniseptatis vel endochromate utrinque retracto. 



On twigs of Acerrubrum. Car. Inf. No. 1088. 



Erumpent conical, compressed, often truncate at the apex, which 

 is of a pale rose colour from the shortly fusiform hyaline uniseptate 

 spores, or with the endochrome retracted at either end. 



403. Sphaeronema Ampelopsidis. B. & C. — Gregarium nigrum 

 ostiolo tenier erumpens ; sporis oblongis hyalinis minutis. 



On twigs of Ampelopsis quin que folia. Mountains of Virginia. 

 No. ^316. 



Bursting through the bark by means of its delicate ostiolum, and 

 at length throwing it off entirely, so as to leave a little patch of 

 perithecia ; spores oblong, minute, seated on pedicels of about the 

 6ame length. 



403 (bis). Sphaeronema spina. B. Sf R — Peritheciis erumpentibus 

 spiniformibus nigris corticatis ; sporis minimis globosis. Sphceria 

 Spina, Schwein. Splicer onema acuminatum, B. & R. S. Spinal- 

 forme, B. & C. 



On dead leaves of ash, accompanied by young Tillandsia 

 Usneoides. Car. Inf. Ravenel. No. 1447. Alabama, Beau- 

 mont. No. 5118. 



Bursting through the bark by its spiniform often inclined ostio- 

 lum, covered with a thick bark ; spores globose, very minute. 



