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CUCURBITARIA, Gray. 



Nat. Arrangement of Brit. Plants, I, p. 519. 



Perithecia cespitose or more rarely gregarious, generally more or 

 less connected at the base by a thin, dematiaceous stroma, spherical, 

 glabrous, black, coriaceous, generally rugulose, perforated above. 

 Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Sporidia uniseriate, oblong or elliptical, 

 niuriform, yellow, becoming brown. Paraphyses abundant. 



C, elongata, (Fr.) 



Sphczria elongata, Fr. S. M. II, p. 422. 

 Cucurbitaria elongata, Grev. Scott. Crypt. Flora tab. 195. 

 Exsicc, Fckl. F. Rh. 970. Rah. Herb. Myc. 727. id. F. Kur. 822, 1441. Rehm Asc. 185, 

 336. Thum. F. Austr. 252. id. M. U. 565, 1362. M. March. 146. Plowr. Sph. 

 Brit. 54. EH. & Fvrht. N. A. F. 2d Ser. 1955. 



Stroma black, extensively effused and often surrounding the 

 branch. Perithecia at first immersed, then erumpent, subcespitose, 

 globose, annulate-depressed around the papilliform ostiolum. Asci 

 cylindrical, short-stipitate, 120-150x12-14//, 8-spored, with filiform 

 paraphyses. Sporidia uniseriate, ovate-oblong. 5-7-septate and muri- 

 form, 25-28 x 10-12 //, yellow, then brown, constricted at the middle 

 septum. Macropycnidial state, Ilendersonia Robiniw, West; pyc- 

 nidia, Diplodia Mobinim, stylospores ovate, brown, uniseptate, 20 x 

 12 /*; perithecia globose, papillate. 



On Mobinia pseudacacia, Pennsylvania (Everhart). 



C. Berberidis, (Pers). 



Sphczria Berberidis, Pers. Syn. p. 52. 

 Cucurbitaria Berberidis, Gray 1. c. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 969. Kunze. F. Sel. 103. Rab. Herb. Mycol. 653. id. F. E. 2230. 

 Rehm. Asc. 281. Thum. F. Austr. 171. id. M. U. 360. I^in. F. Hung. 281. M. 

 March. 161, 1716, 2943. Plow. S. Brit. 56. Vize. M. F. 160. Romell, F. Scand. 76. 

 EH. N. A. F. 578. 



Perithecia seated on a thin, brownish-black, dematiaceous stroma, 

 mostly in elongated groups of various extent, erumpent through the 

 epidermis, crowded, subspherical, rimose-rugose, and finally subrimose- 

 dehiscent, black, glabrous, about f mm. diam. Asci cylindrical from 

 a narrow base, 150-160 x 1416 /i, 8-spored, with abundant paraphy- 

 ses. Sporidia uniseriate, oblong-elliptical, somewhat attenuated at the 

 ends, 8-9-septate and muriform, constricted in the middle, golden-yel- 

 low becoming brown, with the ends subhyaline, 26-30x12-13 p, 

 Spermogonium; spermatia very small, cylindrical, 4 x J fi. 



On dead limbs of Herberts vulgaris, Carolina (Schw.) 



