736 



E. infernalis, (Kunze). 



Sphceria infernalis, Kze. in Fr. S. M. II, p. 371. 

 Sphceria Glis, B. & Br. Not. Brit. Fungi, No. 884. 

 Enchnoa infernalis, Sacc. M. Ven. Spec. p. 210. 



Covered, subemergent, the effused, dark brown, floccose-strigose 

 stroma enveloping the globose, thin, collapsing perithecia with obsolete 

 ostiola. Asci elavate, paraphysate, long-stipitate, 8-spored, 100-120 x 

 12-16 p. (p. sp. 60 ft long). Sporidia biseriate or conglomerate, cylin- 

 drical, curved, subacute at the ends, continuous, guttulate, pale oliva- 

 ceous, 20-24 x 5 p. 



On (oak branches)? Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



We have seen no specimens, and insert this on the authority of 

 Schweinitz. 



E. lanata, (Fr.) 



Sphceria lanata, Fr. S. M. II, p. 482. 



Enchnoa lanata, Sacc. Syll. 374, Cke. Syn. 4064. 



Perithecia covered, free, globose, woolly, rusty-brown, with erum- 

 pent, black ostiola. Asci ample, broad-elliptical, 8-spored. Sporidia 

 cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, curved, hyaline, with a central nucleus 

 resembling a septum, 9x3//. 



On Betula nigra, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



E. floccosa, (Fr.) 



Sphceria floccosa, Fr. S. M. II, p. 375. , 



Enchnoa floccosa, Karst. Symb. Mycol. Fenn. IV, p. 187. 



Perithecia scattered or crowded, sometimes seriately aggregated, 

 at first covered by the epidermis, then denuded, sphaeroid, collapsing 

 below, covered with a brown or umber-colored tomentum fine as a 

 spider's web, 200-300 /j. diam. Asci aparaphysate, elavate, 30-36 x 

 8-9 ft. Sporidia tristichous, oblong or cylindrical, 2-nucleate, curved, 

 greenish-hyaline, 10-12 x 2-2 J /i. 



On dead stems of Sambucus, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



Page 411. After Gypeosphaeria Hendersonia, insert 

 C. Notarisii, Fckl. Symb. p. 117. 



Sphceria clypeata, Nees. Syst. fig. 355. 

 Clypeosphceria Notarisii, Sacc. Syll. 3189. 



Perithecia depressed so as to appear like convex, flattened disks 

 but slightly prominent, covered by the adnate, blackened epidermis, 

 with the ostiolum emergent, conic-truncate. Asci stipitate, narrow- 

 cylindrical, 8-spored, 152 x8ju. Sporidia obliquely uniseriate, lanceo- 





