680 



applanate, opening with a rather broad cleft, the base mostly bordered 

 with brown, creeping threads. Asci ovate, sessile, 30x15/7. Spo- 

 i-idia crowded, oblong-fusiform, obtuse, hyaline and uniseptate at first, 

 becoming brown at length and often 3-septate, 15-20x3-5 //, con- 

 stricted at the middle septum. Differs from the usual type of Aylog- 

 raphum. 



On bare wood of old cypress pickets, Louisiana (Langlois). 



A. acicolum, Hark. Bull. Cal. Acad. Feb. 1884, p. 47. 



Lembosia act'cola, Sacc. Syll. IX, p. 1107. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, oblong, covered by the thin 

 epidermis, J-l mm. long, opening by a longitudinal fissure. Asci 

 oval, about 25 mm. in the longer diameter, 8-spored. Sporidia 

 crowded, inordinate, oblong-elliptical, hyaline, uniseptate, scarcely con- 

 stricted, finally brownish, about 15 x 6 fi. 



On living leaves of Pinus sabiniana, Mt. Diablo, California 

 (Harknessj. 



A. liicens, Hark. 1. c. 



Lembosia lucens, Sacc. Syll. IX, p. 1107. 



Perithecia flattened, oblong, sparsely scattered over slightly dis- 

 colored spots, \-\ mm. long, opening by a longitudinal fissure, semi- 

 immersed. Asci ovoid, 8-spored, 37 x 28 /i. Sporidia oblong, rounded 

 at the ends, uniseptate, slightly constricted, with a large vacuole in 

 each cell, hyaline, slowly becoming brown, 21 x 10 fi. 



On living twigs of Garrya elliptica, Tamalpais, California (Hark- 

 ness). 



GLONIUM, Muhl. 



Fr. Syst. Mycol. II, p. 594. 



Perithecia emergent, linear, elongated, rarely oblong, sometimes 

 radiately arranged, carbonaceous or tough-membranaceous, opening by 

 a longitudinal cleft. Asci cylindrical or clavate, 8-spored, paraphysate. 

 Sporidia uniseptate, hyaline or finally brownish. 



G. stellatum, Muhl, in Fr. S. M. 1. c. 



Solenarium bjssoideum, Spreng. 

 Kxsicc. Rav. Fungi Car. Ill, 43. Rav. F. Am. 639. Fll. N. A. F. 462. 



Subiculum effused, brownish-black, indeterminate, 2 or more cm. 

 broad, thin, composed of slender, branching, interwoven fibers. Peri- 

 thecia adnate to the subiculum. anastomosely radiating and forming 



