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ANGELINA, Fr. 



Summa Veg. Scand. p. 358. 



Perithecia rufous or rufescent; when fresh, carnose and open 

 (pezizoid), when dry, subcorneous and darker, with the margin paler; 

 lips involute and disk pallid. Asci paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia 

 oblong, uniseptate and hyaline. 



This genus is closely allied to Ascobolus. 



A. rufescens, (Schw.) 



Hysterium rufescens, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 2081. 

 Ascobolus conglomeratus, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 960. 

 Angelina rufescens, Duby, Hyst. p. 39. 

 Exsicc. EH. N. A. F. 466. >. 



Perithecia (ascomata) much crowded, subelliptical, orbicular or 

 elongated and variously lobed, 1 mm. and over in diameter, disk 

 almost convex when fresh, with a narrow white margin, involute and 

 nearly closed when dry, in the fresh, growing state, greenish, becoming 

 mouse-color or slate-color. Asci clavate, stipitate, 8-spored, 100-120 x 

 7-8 fi (including the slender base), with filiform paraphyses. Sporidia 

 collected in the upper part of the ascus, fusoid-oblong, hyaline, unisep- 

 tate, 8-12x2-2! fi. 



On the decayed surface and in the cavities of decaying oak 

 stumps, common around Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.), and also at New- 

 field, N. J. 



The part of the wood occupied by the fungus is quite rotten and 

 soft, caused apparently by the mycelium of the fungus, but the decay 

 does not at first penetrate deeply, the subjacent wood remaining for 

 some time hard and sound. 



GLONIELLA, Sacc. 



Sylloge Fung. II, p. 765. 



Perithecia emergent, oblong or linear, carbonaceous, black, de- 

 hiscing by a longitudinal cleft. Asci 4-8-spored, paraphysate. Spo- 

 ridia oblong or fusoid, 2-pluriseptate, generally 3-septate, hyaline or 

 subhyaline. 



G. Curtisii, (Dnby). 



Hysterium Curtisii, Duby, Hyst. p. 30, tab. 1, fig. 10. 

 Gloniella Curtisii, Sacc. Syll. 5721. 



Perithecia erumpent-superficial, variable in shape, subglobose at 

 first and contracted at base, soon laterally compressed and conchiform, 



