46 



On Per sea Olea Americana, Magnolia, &c, Carolina to Louisi- 

 ana. 



M. furcata, Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat. 1846, p. 266. (Plate 5) 



Bornet Org. des Mel. tab. 22, fig. 14. 



Perithecia black, wrinkled, globose, 200-250 jx diam., surrounded 

 by numerous, erect, dark brown, continuous or obscurely septate 

 appendages 10-12 /x thick, divided at the tip into two recurved 

 spreading branches 30-40 /x long, and each with 2-3 divergent lobes 

 10-15 ti long. Mycelium forming round, black patches, 2-6 mm. in 

 diam., scattered or confluent, composed of brown, radiating, septate 

 hyphae 8-10 /x thick, with short, alternate, two-celled branches (hypho- 

 podia), the lower cell short and cylindrical, the upper globose or 

 ovoid and longer. Asci 2-4-spored. Sporidia brown, cylindrical, 

 4-septate, slightly constricted at the septa, rounded at the ends, 35-45 

 x 14-16 fjL 



The foregoing description is from specimens in the Herb, of the 

 U. S. Dept. of Ag. Washington, D. C, collected by Wright in Nicar- 

 agua, on some coriaceous leaf. N. A. F. 1297 (a & b) are M. biden- 

 tata, Cke., and 1297 (c) is M. palmicola, Winter. 



M. Cookeana, Speg. F. Arg. Pug. IV, p. 42. 



Meliola amphitricha, Fr. Ravenel F. Am. No. 84, and Ellis N. A. F. No. 1295. 



Mycelium amphigenous, broadly and irregularly effused, subcrus- 

 taceous, black, easily separating when mature, hyphae thick, branching, 

 intricate, remotely septate. Hyphopodia short-pyriform, uniseptate; 

 hyphae few, rigid, often only in a circle around the perithecia, 

 120-250 x 8-10 li, apices entire. Perithecia scattered or aggregated, 

 globose, black, carbonaceous, bald, not collapsing, scaly, granular, 

 150-200 ti diam. Asci elliptical, short and thick, stipitate, 2-spored, 

 often immature. Sporidia at first hyaline, then brown, oblong, 4-sep- 

 tate, constricted at the septa, 30-40 x 10-12 it. 



On living leaves of Gallicarpa Americana, Florida. 



M. bidentata, Cke. Grev. XI, p. 37. (Plate 5) 



Exsicc. Rav. F. Am. 330. EH. N. A. F. 1297 a & b Rabh. Winter Fungi, 3546. 



Perithecia globose, (150 ti). Appendages few, erect, 2-4-cleft at 

 the tips. Asci saccate. Sporidia oblong-cylindrical, 3-septate, slightly 

 constricted at the septa, rounded at the ends, brown, 45-50 x 16-18 fi 7 

 usually two in an ascus. 



On leaves of Bignonia capreolata, Carolina to Texas. 



M. palmicola, Winter, Rabh- Winter, Fungi Eur. 3547. (Plate 5) 



Exsicc. EH. N. A. F. 1297 c Rav. F. Am. 81. Rabh-Winter F. E. 2846, 3547 



Mycelium forming irregularly rounded spots 1-15 mm. broad 7 



