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Pod. Brassicae. (Klotzsch). 



Splicer ia Brassicae, Klotzsch in Smith's Engl. Flora V, p. 216. 

 Sphceria lanuginosa, Preuss in I,inn. 1853, XXVI, p. 714. 

 Arnium lanuginosum, Nits, in Fckl. Synib. Nachtr. I, p. 38. 

 Soidaria Curreyi, Awd. in Niessl Beitrag. p 42. 

 Sordaria lanuginosa, Sacc. Syll. 859. 

 Podospcrra Brassicae, Winter Pilze 2985. 



Perithecia globose-conical, often curved, subtnracate above, dirty 

 gray-tomcntose, about 1 mm. high and f mm. thick, superficial. Asci 

 cylindrical, p. sp. 150-160x25-26 ft, stipitate. Sporidia obliquely 

 uniseriate, ovate-elliptical, 40-50x24 /i, dark brown, with a deciduous, 

 hyaline appendage at each end, or sometimes only below. 



Dr. Harkness reports this as found in California on dead branches 

 of I/upinus arboreus. We have not seen the specimens and take the 

 diagnosis from Saccardo's Sylloge. The synonymy is from Winter's 

 Pilze, where the asci are given as 200-300x34-40 // for the spore- 

 bearing part, instead of 150-1 60 x 25-26 /j. as stated in Sylloge. 



Pod. alifornica, (Plowr.) 



.Soidaria Californica, Plowr. Grev. VII, p. 72, tab. 120, fig. 2. 



Perithecia ovate, clothed with a dusky brown, felt-like coat, about 

 half sunk in the matrix, 1 mm. high, by about f mm. broad, the pro- 

 jecting apex more or less distinctly ridged, with the intervening fur- 

 rows more distinct and coarser than in Pod. striata, E. & E. Asci 

 subcylindrical, 300-350 x 15-20 /i, with filiform paraphyses. Sporidia 

 biseriate, oblong-elliptical, 30-35 x 15-18 ju, subtruncate at base, with* 

 ;i li valine, curved appendage about as long as the sporidium. 



On cow dung, California (Harkness). 



Our specimen from Dr. Harkness has the perithecia immature, the 

 sporidia being as yet hyaline, and consisting of a narrow-elliptical head 

 25 x 12 fj. with a long cylindrical tail below. 



PHIL0C0PRA, Speg. 



Nova Syst. Carp. Class, in F. Arg. Pug. I, Sacc. Syll. I, p. 249. 



Perithecia semi-immersed, globose-conical, glabrous or hairy, 

 membranaceous, turning black. Asci very large, polysporous. Spo- 

 ridia polystichous, ovoid, brown, mostly with a hyaline appendage at 

 one or both ends. 



Ph. liitea, (E. & E.) (Plate 18)* 



.So/daria Intea, P). & K. Journ. Mycol. Ill, p. nS. 



Perithecia gregarious, f-1 mm. diam., membranaceous, conic- 



*In explanation of PI. 18, instead of Podospora lutea read 

 Phiiocopra lutea. 



