742 



Page 582. After Anthostonia tuberculosum, insert 

 A. hiascens, (Fr.) 



Sphceria hiascens, Fr. S. M. II, p. 477. 

 Anthostonia hiascens, Nitsch. Pyr. Germ. p. 113. 



Stroma effused, immersed in the wood, which at length whitens 

 out on the surface. Perithecia immersed, depressed-globose, monos- 

 ticlious, scattered or crowded, with very short necks. Ostiola large, 

 mostly deeply 4-sulcate, sometimes almost cup-shaped. Sporidia 

 obtusely fusoid, dull black, straight, inequilateral, 32-36x8 ju. 



On (beech)? wood, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.). 



Page 609. Insert after the genus Dothidella 



SCIRRHIA, Mtschke. 



in Fckl. Symb. Mycol. p. 220. 



Stromata linear, often crowded or subconfluent, forming elongated 

 swellings erumpent through parallel cracks in the epidermis. Cells 

 immersed, polystichous. Asci elongated, 8-spored. Sporidia oblong, 

 uniseptate, hyaline. The conidial stage is Hadotrichum. 



S. ostiolata, Ell. & Galw. (in Herb.) 



Stromata narrow-elliptical, raising the epidermis into elongated 

 swellings 3-6 x 1-1 \ mm. Cells numerous, white inside, the conic- 

 tuberculiform ostiola seriate-erumpent, through parallel, longitudinal 

 cracks in the overlying epidermis. Asci clavate, paraphysate, 55-65 x 

 6-7 fx. Sporidia biseriate, fusoid-oblong, uniseptate and constricted 

 at the septum, 12-15 x 3-4 fi, yellowish-hyaline, cells guttulate. 



On dead culms of Gyperus artimdatus, College Station, Texas 

 (Jennings). 



Has the habit- and general appearance of jS. rimosa, (A. & S.), 

 but differs in its smaller asci and sporidia and its larger, tuberculiform 

 ostiola. 



Page 636. After Hypoxylon turbinulatum, insert 



H. atrorufum, E. & E. (in Herb.) 



Stromata oblong or suborbicular, erumpent-superficial, 2-3 mm. 

 diam., or subseriately confluent for J-l cm., pulvinate, rounded above, 

 reddish-brown and mamillose from the prominent apices of the peri- 

 thecia, contracted at the base and black. Perithecia peripherical, 

 ovate, small, (J mm.). Stroma brownish-black inside. Ostiola acutely 



