663 



Australia.; common throughout the eastern United States and reported 

 by Dr. Harkness from California. 



CAMILLEA, Fr. 



Summa Veg. Scand. p. 382, Mont. Syll. Crypt, p. 207. 



Stromata vertical, oblong, carbonaceous, stipitate or sessile, stro- 

 matically connected at base. Perithecia linear or bottle-shaped, 

 membranaceous, included in the upper part of the stroma. Asci 

 obovate, 8-spored, with capillary paraphyses. Sporidia conglobate, 

 oblong, continuous, brown. 



Some of the extra-limital species have the stroma truncate or cup- 

 shaped above, and the sporidia appendiculate. 



C. Sagraekna, (Mont.) 



Hypoxylon Sagrceana, Mont. Cuba, p. 341, tab. 12, fig. 4, 

 Phylacia Sagrceana, Mont. Syll. Crypt. No. 921. 

 Camillea Sagrceana, B. & C Exot. Fungi, p. 285. 



Stromata cespitose-connate, oblong-obovate, stipitate, carbona- 

 ceous, black, fragile; fertile head about 1 cm. long by 5-6 mm. wide, 

 obtusely pointed at the apex, divided by a horizontal partition across 

 the middle, the space above being occupied by the perithecia, and the 

 cavity below loosely filled with pseudoparenchymatic matter. Stipe 

 thick, about 1 cm. long. Perithecia membranaceous, subcylindrical, 

 about 5 mm. long, with a slender neck piercing the crustaceous outer 

 layer of the stroma and terminating in obscurely punctiform ostiola. 

 Asci obovate-clavate, subsessile, 21-28x10-14 u, 8-spored, (par- 

 aphysate)? Sporidia conglobate, oblong-elliptical, obtuse, almost trun- 

 cate at the ends, continuous, brown, 10-17 x 10-12 ju. 



On fallen branches, Nicaragua (Wright). 



The above diagnosis is from specc. in Herb. U. S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, collected by Wright in Nicaragua. The young stromata are 

 at first entirely enclosed in a common carbonaceous stroma (see PI. 38, 

 fig. 2) from which they finally emerge separate and distinct. The 

 specimens differ somewhat from those collected in Cuba by Poppig, 

 and figured as Camillea Sagrmana by Dr. Rehm, in Hedwigia, 1889, 

 pp. 300 and 301, in being distinctly stipitate, with the stromata not 

 constricted in the middle; the sporidia also, in the Cuban specimens, 

 are smaller (9-10x4//). Currey in his Compound Sphcerias (plate 

 XLV, fig. 24) also figures the sporidia of M. Sagrceana and makes 

 them 10 ju long, but whether the Nicaragua specc. are specifically dis- 

 tinct, can only be determined by the examination of a more complete 

 set of specimens. 



