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On deca^-ing wood of various deciduous trees, Kansas (Cra- 

 gin^, Canada (Dearness), Ohio (Morgan), Delaware (Com- 

 mons), Louisiana (Langlois), Nicaragua (C.L.Smith). Mr. 

 Ellis had received specimens of this species from different 

 localities before he received my Nicaraguan specimen. 



H. INSIDENS [Sc/izi'.) E. cf- E. ? 



A few old specimens were collected which were thought to 

 be very close to this species. On wood, Ometepe. (B. S.) 



H. sp. ? 



A number of specimens which were too old to show their 

 true color and the asci were gone. The sporidia were too 

 large ( 27x10//) for H. argillacciim Pers., which it might oth- 

 erwise have been. — (Ellis.) 



On rotten wood, Castillo Viejo. (C. L. S.) 



Kretzschmaria Fr. 



Densely cespitose, effused; capitula short, black, carbon- 

 aceous, sometimes a little divided and stipitate, sometimes on 

 short, much divided branches. Asci cylindrical, generally 

 8-spored. Sporidia ovate-fusoid, continuous, sooty.— A genus 

 between Xxlaria and Hxfo.wlon. — [Sacc. Syll. II, Add. p. xxix.] 



Kr. ccenopus [JIonL) Sacc. ( Vide Sacc. Syll., II, Add. p. 

 xxix. ) 



Black. Tubercles plane, sub-stipitate, narrowed below, 

 crowded on an undulate crust. Perithecia sub-immersed, 



with a punctiform ostiolum. Asci Sporidia 10 a long. 



—(Berk.) 



On decaying wood and bark, Cuba, Surinam, Ceylon, Brazil 

 and Borneo. Perithecia large, ovoid, few in a tubercle. There 

 is an apodous variety and a large variety in Brazil. [Sacc. 

 Syll. I,p.3S8.] 



On bark of decaying trunk, Ometepe and Castillo Viejo. 

 (C. L. S.) 



