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370. Ceratostomella cirrhosa (Pers. ) Sacc. 



E. & E, , N. Am. Pyr. , page 196. On rotten limbs on the 

 ground in woods, October 24, 1905. Perithecia surrounded by- 

 septate brown hairs, and provided with a long cylindrical ostiolum ; 

 asci cylindrical, short stipitate, straight or curved, 53-57 x 6-7 li ; 

 sporidia narrow oblong cylindrical, continous, greenish hyaline, 10-12 

 X 2-3 fl. 



371. Zignoella pulviscula (Curr.) Sacc. 



On ch\Y)S ol Betula hdca Michx. Woods, Oct., 1905. Probably 

 a variety of Zignoella ovoidea (Fr. ), which in Lindau, Hilfsbuch 

 fiir das Sammeln der Ascomyceten, is given as the species found 

 in Germany on Betula. Perithecia minute, black, hemispherical, 

 minutely roughened ; asci clavate cylindrical, short stipitate, para- 

 physate, straight or curved, 73-80 x 10 /-/ (some were found long 

 tapering stipitate, 110 x 10 //); sporidia overlapping uniseriate, or 

 irregularly biseriate, fusoid, straight, or curved, uniseptate, occasionally 

 granular and nucleolate, 25 x 3-4 «, hyaline. 



372. Cryptospora caryae Peck. 



Peck, 38th Rep., p. 106, tab. 2, Figs 28-31. N. A. Pyr., p. 

 536. On dead branches of Carya, Oct. 13, 1905. Asci 100-120X 12- 

 13 //, clavate cylindrical ; sporidia granular nucleate, spuriously 

 septate, hyaline, 37 x 6-7 /^, a little smaller than Ellis states. Needs 

 to be studied in all its stages of growth, so as to be compared with 

 Pseudovalsa fainnani E. & E. 



373. Hypomyces insignis B. & C. 



E. & E. , N. A. Pyr., p. 76. Syn. Hypomyces transformans 

 Peck, in 39th Rep. N. Y. State Museum, page 57. On Caiifharelhis, 

 in the woods, August, 1905. In our specimens the sporidia are 

 hyaline, uniseptate, apiculate at each end, 33 x 6-7 /i. Ellis says 37 // 

 long, but Peck makes them 33-38 [x long. 



374. Hypocrea contorta (Schw.) B. & C. 



Syn. H. Sclnceinitzii (Fr.) in N. A. Pyr., p. 79. On dead 

 branches, in the woods, 1905. Det. Peck. 



375. Hypocrea gelatinosa (Tode) Fr., van viridis Tode. 

 E. & E., N. A. Pyr., p. 84, On rotten log, woods, Autumn, 1905. 



The stroma, at first, is of a light transparent color, which turns yellow, 

 then becomes pulverulent green on the surface, from the greenish 

 sporidia. Accompanied by Tnchodej'iua viride Tode, conidial state. 



