489 



Eu. capillata, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 74. 



Stromata pustuliform, 2-3 mm. diam., numerous and closely con- 

 tiguous for 5-20 cm., blackening and carbonizing the bark, and bounded 

 by a black line which penetrates the wood, but not deeply. Perithecia 

 membranaceous, thick-walled, black and shining within (when dry), 

 6-12 in a group, not distinctly circinating, |-| mm. diam., their bases 

 slightly sunk in the wood. Ostiola capillary, very long (|-1 cm.), 

 crooked, rough, brittle (readily breaking square off when dry), apices 

 rounded and 4-5-sulcate, altogether resembling a mass of black, strigose, 

 coarse hair covering the matrix with a nearly continuous coat. Asci 

 clavate, truncate above, 1 5 x3| p (p. sp.), with a slender base about 15 /< 

 long, without paraphyses. Sporidia 8, crowded, yellowish in the mass, 

 strongly curved, with a nucleus in each end, about 3J x | p. In its 

 smaller sporidia and very long ostiola, this appears distinct from Eu- 

 typella Bonariensis, Speg., and from Valsa scoparia, Schw. Var. 

 mhsimplex has the perithecia larger (|-| mm.), more deeply buried in 

 the wood, and only 1-2 in a stroma, which is rounded and protuberant 

 like the perithecia of some large, suberumpent, simple Sphceria. 



On decaying limbs lying on the ground, St Martinsville, La. 

 (Langlois). 



Eu. deusta, (E. & E.) 



Valsa deusta, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 64. 



Perithecia 4-6 together, sunk in the surface of the wood, with 

 thick, membranaceous walls, shining-black inside (when dry), raising 

 the bark into distinct pustules. Ostiola erumpent in a compact fascicle, 

 short-cylindrical (| mm.), obtuse, quadrisulcate. Asci (p. sp.) clavate, 

 about 15x4/i. Sporidia crowded, 8 in an ascus, allantoid, strongly 

 curved, minute (3^-4 x J-| p.). The cuticle is soon thrown off, leaving 

 the exposed surface of the inner bark uniformly blackened. 



On decaying limbs of Carya, Louisiana (Langlois). 



Eu. stellulata, (Fr.) 



Sp/usria stellulata, Fr. S. M. II, p. 380. 



Eutypella stellulata, Sacc. Syll. 571. 



Valsa ventnosa, C. & E. Grev. VI, p. 93. 



Valsa innumerabilis, Pk. 30th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p. 65. 



Valsa tetraploa, B. & C. Grev. V, p. 55. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 597. Kze. F. Sel. 146. Rab. F. E. 1535 KH. N. A. F. i?S, & 



Rav. F. Am. 190, 361, 362, 663. Plowr. F. Brit. 42. L,in. F. Hung. 175. Kriegr. 

 F. Sax. 430. Sydow, M. March. 760. Rehm Asc. 730. Vize Micr. Fungi, 164 

 Roum. F. Gall. 5348. 



Stromata obtusely conical or subepberical, rarely subeffused, 1-2 

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