﻿Alabama Fungi 365 



On dead twigs of Melia Azedarach, Auburn, Ala., March 



1896. Underwood & Earle. 



Nectria 



Fr., but it differs from Swedish specimens of that species collected 



by Fries and now in the Peters Coll. in its smaller and darker per- 



lthecia, and in the smaller, darker and much more prominent 

 stroma. 



N. verrucosa (Schw.) Sacc. is said to occur on Melia in South 

 Carolina. Our specimens agree well with this in the peculia, 

 roughening of the perithecia, and in the size and general appear- 

 ance of the spores. The stroma is, however, entirely different, 

 being vermilion red and flat or concave in that species, but dark- 

 brown and prominently wart-like in this one. The specimens of 

 N. verrucosa that I have been able to examine were none of them 

 on Melia but probably all on J for us. 



AULOGRAPHUM CONFLLENS Sp. nOV. 



On blackened areas : perithecia gregarious, black, slender, 

 Hexed and variously confluent, fragile, composed of loosely joined 

 parallel threads, 400-800 x 40 n, lips rather lax and open: asci 

 oblong, very numerous, about 25-30 x 4—5 //, paraphyses thread- 

 like, enlarged above, much agglutinated and often indistinguish- 

 able : sporidia distichous or inordinate, oblong, ends obtusely 

 rounded, nearly equally uniseptate, constricted, hyaline, about 



On dead weathered stems of blackberry (Rubus sp.), Auburn, 

 Ala., February 1, 1896. Underwood & Earle. 



In extreme cases the patches of confluent perithecia remind 

 one of Glonium stellatum in miniature. Lophodcrmium ndnicolum 

 also occurs on the same canes. 



LOPHODERMIUM RUBIICOLUM Sp. nOV. 



r enthecia thickly scattered, sometimes crowded and occasion- 



y c °nfluent end to end, 1-2 x .25 mm., strongly convex and 



Prominent, almost seeming superficial, dull black, straight or flexed, 



^ s obtuse, lips prominent and somewhat widely opened : asci 



^arrowiv linear, about 60-70 x 4 ft: spores nearly equaling the 

 ^cus, light yellow, twisted, exceedingly slender, scarcely .75// in 



°n dead blackberry stems {Rubus sp.), Auburn, Ala. February 

 and Marc h, 1896. Underwood & Earle. 



