121 



pillate. Stylospores lanceolate, obtuse, slightly curved, 3-septate, hya- 

 line, 30 x 8 y.. 



On bark of Ficus, California (Harkness). 



Asci and sporidia not seen. Stylospores evidently different from 

 those of G. pidicaris. 



MELAN0SP0RA, Corda. 



Icones I, p. 24. 



Perithecia superficial but with the base more or less sunk in a 

 thick layer of interwoven hyphae, without any true stroma, of soft, fleshy 

 substance, translucent, globose-pyriform with a long beak. Sporidia 

 elliptical, mostly continuous, dark. 



A. Sporidia continuous. 



M. chionea, (Fr.) . (Plate 14) 



Sphceria chionea, Fr. S. M. II, p. 446. 

 Ceratostoma chioneum, Fr. Obs. II, p. 340. 

 Melanospora chionea, Corda Icon. I, p. 25. 

 Exsicc. Fgkl. F. Rh. 2015. Thum. M. U. 1844. Krgr. Fungi. Sax. 2,73. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, superficial, globose, white-woolly, 

 300-400 fx diam., with a straight, reddish-yellow, stout beak about 1 

 mm. long and having a few spreading hairs at'its apex. Asci obovate- 

 clavate, stipitate, 8-spored, 35-45x13-16 (p. sp.) Sporidia crowded 

 or imperfectly biseriate, globose-elliptical, brown, 10-12 x 9-10 ft. 



On decaying pine leaves and on leaves of deciduous trees, London. 

 Canada (Dearness). The hairs at the end of the beak are not as dis- 

 tinct as in the European specimens. 



M. lagenaria, (Pers.) 



SphcBtia lagenaria, Pers. Syn. p. 58. 

 Ceratostoma lagenarium, Fr. Summ. Veg. Sc. p. 396. 

 Auerszvaldia lagenaria, Rab. Hedw. I, p. 116. tab. XV, fig. 2. 

 Melanospora lagenaria, Fckl. Symb. p. 126. 

 Exsicc Fckl. F. Rh. 807. Rehm Asc. 699. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, emergent-superficial, gptoroid 

 or subovoid, rugulose, at first yellowish, then liver color and finally 

 black, 400-420 fi diam., with a very long (2-2 //), straight or flexo- 

 ous beak tipped with white hairs. Asci broad-clavate. stipitate, 36-40 

 x 12-15//. Sporidia irregularly crowded, elliptical with ends atten- 

 uated, ll-14x 6 //, becoming brown. 



Given on the authority of Peck (27th Rep. p. 110), who found it 

 in the Adirondack Mts., N. Y., on the hymenium of some old Pp/y- 

 porus, He says: u Asci very broad, spores crowded, simple, elliptical, 

 colored 12Jx7| fi." 

 16 



