618 



CURRKYA, Sacc. 



Syll. II, p. 651. v 



Stroma hemispherical or discoid, black. Asci elongated, 8-spor( 

 Sporidia ovate, elliptical or oblong, pluriseptate, muriform, yellow or 

 brown. 



C. Harknessii, E. & E. (in Herb.) 



Stromata gregarious, small (less than 1 mm.), depressed-hemi- 

 spherical or subdiscoid, black, at first covered, finally exposed, but 

 scarcely rising above the bark, deciduous. Ascigerous cells few, 

 small. Ostiola only slightly prominent. Asci oblong-cylindrical, 

 sessile, paraphysate,*8-spored. Sporidia biseriate, oblong-ovate, 3-sep- 

 tate, with 1-2 partial longitudinal septa, yellow-brown, 12-15x5-6 fi. 



On dead stems of Convolvulus Calif vr miens, Mt. Diablo, Cala. 



Sent by Dr. Harkness as Dothidea Calystegice, Cke. & Hark., 

 from which it is quite distinct. 



C. excavata, (C. & E.) 



Dothidea excavata, C. & E. Grev. V, p. 34, tab. 75, fig. 4. 

 Curreya excavata, Sacc. Syll, 5348. 



Gregarious, discoid, irregular, depressed, at length concave, black. 

 Asci cylindrical. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, multi-septate, muri- 

 form, brown, 18-20 x 10 p.. 



On dead limbs of Magnolia glauca, Newfield, N. J. 



We know nothing of this species. Our specc. (2361) are Doth- 

 idea concaviuscida, E. & E., which agrees with this only in external 

 appearance. The specc. in Roum. F. Gall. 1835, under the name of 

 Dothidea excavata, C. & E., are only the spermogonial stage of some 

 species unknown apparently not Dothidea. 



RHOPOGRAPHUS, Nitschke. 



in Fckl. Symb. p. 219. 



Stromata subinnate, linear, irregular, variously confluent, erum- 

 pent through cracks in the epidermis, black. Ascigerous cells im- 

 mersed, seriate, comparatively large. Asci oblong-ovoid, 8-sporecl. 

 Sporidia suboblong, 3-5-septate, yellowish. 



Rh. filicinus, (Fr.) (Plate 40) 



Hysterium aquilinum, Schum. Enuni. Plant. Ssell. Ill, p. 152. 

 Sphceria filicina, Fr. S. M. II, p. 427. 

 Dothidea filicina, Fr. Surama, p. 3S6. 



Rhopographus filicinus* Nits, in Fckl. Symb. p. 219, tab. VI, fig. 31. 

 Rhopographus Pteridis, Winter, in Kze. F. Sel. 583. 

 Exsicc. Kze. 1. c Rab. F. E. 2672. Rehm Asc. 581 .. Sydow, M. March. 163. Thum. 

 M. U. 2176. Kze. F. Sel. 583. 



