﻿Alabama Fungi 363 



Sporonema Ilicis Earle, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 24: 32, is 

 probably a pycnidial form of this species. 



Trichosphaeria Underwoodii sp. nov. 



Perithecia black, superficial, collapsing, 300-400/.*, ostiolum 

 obscurely papillate, surface abundantly clothed with dark brown, 

 continuous or sparingly septate, rigid but flexed hairs 100-300 x 

 3 : perithecia seated on a thin, dark brown mycelium consisting 

 of scattered, interlacing, frequently septate threads, each cell of 

 which has a conspicuous vacuole ; rising from the mycelium are 

 frequent, erect, rigid, septate setae 1 50-200 p- long by 5-6 fi at base 

 and tapering upward to a point : asci cylindrical, 80-100 x 8 /i, 

 paraphyses vague and indistinct, slender, branching : sporidia 8, 

 monostichous, oblong to narrowly oval, ends rounded, at length 

 distinctly uniseptate and yellowish, about 20 x 4 ft 



On dead stems of Arundinaria, Auburn, Ala., January 4, 1896. 

 Underwood & Earle. 



This differs from the description of T. Arundinariac E. & E., 

 from Louisiana, in its collapsing perithecia which at first glance 

 make it seem almost pezizoid, and in the smaller, uniseptate spores 

 with rounded, not acute ends. 



Valsaria xudicollis -(B. & C.) Sacc. 



On the hardened outer surface of rotten pine wood, Auburn, 

 Ala., March 21, 1896. L. M. Underwood. 



This seems to be the first time that this interesting species has 

 been taken since the type collection in South Carolina. Berkeley's 

 description (Grev. 4 : 93) of the connate umber-brown perithecia 

 with black ostiola forming an almost continuous crust fits our 

 specimen so exactly that there seems no doubt of the determina- 

 tion. The following additional characters are noted : 



Stroma reduced to a thin umber-brown coating: perithecia 

 erumpent, crowded, forming a crust-like covering over considerable 

 ar eas, or scattered in small groups, long partially covered by the 

 whitened ruptured fibers of the surface wood, globose, 35°-500/.*; 

 °stiolum prominent, black, shining : asci cylindrical, spore-bearing 

 Part about 60 x 6-7 /Jt, paraphyses numerous, flat, twisted, about 

 ,So * 4-5 ,« : sporidia 8, obliquely monostichous, regularly oblong- 

 *al, ends obtuse, brown, equally uniseptate, about IO X 5 P> 



Hypomyces aurantius (Pers.) Fckl. 

 In Ala. Exp. Sta. Bull. 80: 185 this species is credited to 



