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H. insignis, B. & . Fiwgj of Mexico, No. 6, p. 424. 



Hypomyces trans/or mans, Pk. 39th Rep, N. Y. State Mus. p. 57. 



Mycelium red, effused. Perithecia oblong,- more deeply colored. 

 Sporidia fusiform, apiculate at each end, 37 // long, spuriously l-septate r 

 hyaline. On the hymenium and pileus of Cantharellus, which it cov- 

 ers with a red stratum and obliterates the gills. In Mexico, near 

 Orizaba (Botteri). 



The above is from Saccardo's Sylloge, Vol. II, p. 472. 



The following is Peck's description of his H. transformans. 



Subiculum effused, variable in color, pallid, golden-yellow, oehra- 

 ceous or brick-red. Perithecia ovate or subglobose, papillate, sunk in 

 the subiculum. Ostiola prominent, obtuse, amber or orange. Asci 

 cylindrical. Sporidia fusiform, apiculate at each end, somewhat rough, 

 continuous or rarely with the endochrome obscurely divided, colorless, 

 33-38 li long. 



On Cantherellus cibarius which it transforms into an irregular 

 mass. 



We have what appears to be the same, on Cantharellus cibarius, 

 from Massachusetts (S. J. Harkness) and from Pennsylvania (Everhart). 

 C. species riot well known. 



H. tegillum, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 15. 



"Perithecia ovate, rufous-brown, scattered over a continuous, white 

 mycelium, like thin parchment." On pine, Carolina (Ravenel). 



H. flavescens, (Schw.), Grev. XII, p. 80. 



Perithecia gregarious, distinct, globose-ovate, papillate, whitish, 

 covered with a villose coat that finally disappears, seated on a milk- 

 white, broadly effused, pubescent subiculum ; asci cylindrical. Sporidia 

 narrowly elliptical, hyaline (uniseptate) ? On hymenium of some resu- 

 pinate Polyporus. Pennsylvania (Schweinitz). 



H. paimosus, (Schw.), Grev. XII, p. 80. 



Stroma effused, whitish, shaggy, thin, margin fimbriate-cottony. 

 Perithecia semi-immersed, pale, with dark-colored, punctiform ostiola. 

 Asci cylindrical; sporidia (?) On rotten wood, Ex. Herb. Schw. 



The descriptions of this and the preceding species are taken from 

 Grevillea 1. c. and were, apparently, made from specimens in Herb. 

 Berkeley. They are not in Schw. Synopsis N. Am. The H. pannosus 

 here described is said to be a different thing from the Sphceria pan- 

 it osa, Fr. 



In the next two species, the fructification is unknown. 



