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5-septate, 38-40 x 8-10 ji. In the Newfield specc. occasionally a free 

 sporidium may be found with 4 septa, but this is exceptional, 



M. fusisporum, (Cke.) 



Lophium fusisporum, Cke. Grev. IV. p. 114. 

 Mytilidion fusisporum, Sacc. Syll. 5712. 

 Exsicc. Ell. N. A. F. 858. 



Perithecia erect, expanded above from a narrow base, laterally 

 compressed, thin and fragile, shaped like the blade of a hatchet with 

 the corners rounded off, black and subshining, about 400 p. broad and 

 high, finely striate both longitudinally and transversely. Asci cylin- 

 drical, short-stipitate, paraphysate, 100-110 x 8-10 //. Sporidia irregu- 

 larly biseriate, fusoid, yellowish, nearly straight, 40-50x4-5 //, about 

 7-septate. 



Not uncommon around Newfield, N. J., on old pitchy pine wood. 



TRYBLIDIUM, Dufour. 



Ann. Sci. Nat. XIII, t. 10, fig. 3. 



Perithecia erumpent-superficial, oblong or lanceolate, corneo- 

 coriaceous; lips swollen and open. Asci paraphysate, elongated, 

 8-spored. Sporidia oblong, 1-3-septate, dark-colored. 



The genus belongs really in the Discomycetes, but for the present 

 we include it here. 



* Sporidia uniseptate. 

 Tr. hysterinum, Dufour, 1. c. 



Tryblidium rufulum, Spreng. var. simplex, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. V, p. 30. 

 Hysterium elevatum, Pers. Myc. Eur. I, tab. I, fig. 4. 

 Hysterographium elevatum, Desm. XXII, Not. p. 18. 

 Exsicc. Desm. Pi. Crypt. Ed. I, No. 996, id. Ed. II, 296. Moug. & Nestl. Stirps. Vog. 1070 



Perithecia erumpent-superficial, the central part attached, the 

 ends free, 2-3 mm. long, 1 mm. or more wide, slaty-black, at first sub- 

 globose, closed and covered, then erumpent and opening with a 

 roundish aperture which soon becomes elongated, exposing the ellip- 

 tical, brick-red disk; lips swollen, incurved but not closed, when dry, 

 transversely wrinkled. Asci cylindrical, 120-160 (p. sp. 110) x 15- 

 16 /i, overtopped by the abundant paraphyses. Sporidia uniseriate, 

 elliptical or ovate, uniseptate and constricted, dark brown, 18 22 x 

 8-10 /i, (25-30 x 12-14 /i, Rehm; 20-.28 x 12-15 /i, Sacc). 



On a dead limb, Ocean Springs, Miss. (Earle). 



The Mississippi specc. agree with those in Desm. Exsc, but we 

 can not make the sporidia as large as stated by Rehm and Saccardo. 

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