180 



clavate. Sporidia cymbiform, acute at each end, 4-nucIeate, becoming 

 uniseptate, 25 fi long, hyaline. 



On decaying Vaccinium, Newfield, N. J. 



M. Texensis, (Cke.) 



Sphczria Texensis, Cke. Texas Fungi, 143. 

 Melanopsamma Texensis, Sace. Syll. 2266. 



Scattered over grayish or bleached spots. Perithecia subglobose, 

 immersed in the blackened wood, scarcely prominent. Asci cylin- 

 drical. Sporidia lanceolate, uniseptate, hyaline, 15 x 6 ft. 



On old oak rails, Texas (Ravenel). 



Specimens of this species in our Herb, from Ravenel (part of the 

 original Texas collection) have the asci oblong-cylindrical, about 60 x 

 12 p., nearly sessile and surrounded by abundant, filiform, branching 

 paraphyses. Sporidia biseriate, clavate-oblong, uniseptate, hyaline, 

 10-12 x3-3| /i, ends subacute. Only the vertex of the perithecia 

 projects above the surface of the wood. 



M. segregata, (B. & C.) 



Sphczria segregata, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 141. 

 Zignoella segregata, Sacc. Syll. 3647. 

 Psilosphceria segregata, Cke. Syn. 2980. 



"Perithecia scattered over the bleached surface, free, ovate, acute 

 at the apex. Sporidia hyaline, narrow, uniseptate, elongated-biconical." 

 On decayed wood, North Carolina. 



BERTIA, De Not. 



Giorn. Botan. Ital. I, p. 335. 



Perithecia superficial or nearly so, more or less irregular in shape, 

 of a leathery-carbonaceous texture, surface tubercular or coarsely 

 wrinkled, glabrous, black. Asci clavate, 4 8-spored. Sporidia elon- 

 gated, subcylindrical, uniseptate, hyaline. 



B. moriformis, (Tode). 



SphcFria moriformis, Tode Fungi Meckl. II, p. 22, fig. 90. 

 Sphczria claTiformis, Sow. Eng. Fungi tab. 337. * 



Sphczria rugosa, Grev. Flor. Kdiu. p. 364. 

 Bertia moriformis. De Not. 1. c. 

 Fxsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 999. Rab. Herb. Mycol. 637. Rehm Asc. 442. Sydow Mycoth, 

 March, 1818. 



Perithecia crowded, superficial, ovate or ovate-globose, often com- 

 pressed vertically or otherwise irregular, black, surface coarsely tuber- 

 cular-roughened, J-j mm. diam. Asci elongated-clavate, pedicellate, 

 130-165x14-16 /jt. Paraphyses faintly septate. Sporidia 8 in an 

 aseus, crowded irregularly, hyaline, cylindrical or fusoid-cylindrical, 



