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Sporidia oblong-elliptical, hyaline, uniseptate, not constricted, 

 yS X 3 fi. The asci in the specimens examined had disappeared. 



Possibly this might be considered a variety of A\ sangninea 

 but the perithecia are rather larger and lack the bright red 

 color of that species and the sporidia are smaller. 



On bark, Castillo Viejo. (C. L. S.) 



Glaziella Berk^ 



A genus embracing certain species which have been refer- 

 red to Xylaria and Hypoxylon, 



Stroma sub-globose, carnose, brightly colored. Perithecia 

 pallid, for a long time filled with a hyahne jelly (at length in 

 G. abnormis ascophorous; asci cylindrical; sporidia very mi- 

 nute, monostichous). A genus with a manifestly hyprocrea- 

 ceous mode of life, but doubtful because the fructification is 

 unknown in many of the species. [Sacc. Syll., II, p. S^i-] 



G. VESICULOSA Berk, {^-pro tan.') 



Stroma obovate, about 3^ cm. high and broad, short stipi- 

 tate, hollow and inflated, consisting of a mere shell, 1^-2 mm. 

 thick, orange yellow, entirely closed without any apical or 

 other opening. Perithecia immersed, numerous, immature, 

 without anv distinctly formed asci or sporidia. 



On a dead tree, Ometepe. (C. L. S.) 



III. SPH^^RIACE^. 



FAMILY CHiETOMIE^E. 

 No species collected. 



FAMILY SORDARIEiE. 

 No species collected. 



FAMILY TRICOSPHiERIEiE. 

 Tricosph^ria horrida E. & E. n. sp. 



Perithecia gregarious and cespitose, superficial, membrana- 

 ceous, globose, ^ mm. dia., collapsing above, clothed with 



1 F. Brazil in Meddel. Naturh, Kjobenhavn, 1879 -So, p. 751. 



