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lip- 



(otif 

 aiif 

 t<"ii 



''Fonniiifi' little, lirovvn, invgiilnr specks on a wliito jrround. Asci 

 short, Imiccoliito. Sporidia cynihivroriii with the eiKJochroiiie rctraetod 

 til either oml, 12-14 // lonj!'." 



On stems of DolhhoH, Alalmnia (Hcauniont). 



F. hypericiiia, (B. & C.) 



Sf>li<riia liyfieikina, H. & C. I.e. p. 149. 

 /'/i_Via/ii.\/>oni liypi'iiiina, S.'icc. Syll. 16H3. 

 I'homatospoia hypeiicina, Cke. Syn. 43.(6. 



"Perithcfiii <le]»res.'i<e(l, siirronnded hy the outielo. Asci clavate. 

 Sporidia cyniltii'lorni. hyalitio, 2') ji loiii,'." 

 On Ili/pcrivniii, South Carolina. 



F. (Eiiotlieiw, (B. & (\) 



Splitniii (Enolhene, B. & C. 1. c. p. 151. 

 riiitmntii^piiia (I'.nolhcxr, Ckc. Syn. 434S. 

 Pliysiildspdia <liiio/htiie, Sacc. Syll. i^iHy. 



"Very minute lilaek. Ostiola i-ather pi-omiiiout. Asci clavate. 

 Sporidia shortly fusiform, ends obtuse, hyaline. 



On (EiK)thera sinuatn, So. Carolina. 



We have seen no specimens of this and the four precedinir species. 

 Tiiey are all ]>laceil in Phomitoxpora hy Sacc. in Syll., and Cooke, in 

 his Syn. I'yi'. in Orev'., places them jiartly in Phi/Hdlonpora, an<l part- 

 ly in the paraphysate sections of PhomatoHpora and Lamtddla. 



Specicn impcvfvctlij kiioion. 

 F. subsolitai'ia, (Scliw.) 



Splunia siihsolitaria, Scliw. in Fr. Elench. II, p. 86. 

 Physalospina siibsolitaiia, Sacc. SyU. 1701. 



Stroma coiisistinjr only of a thin, effused, hlack stratum under the 

 epidermis and ])enetratini>' the inner Itark. Perithecia crunipent, sub- 

 solitary, white inside. Ostiolum suh[)rominent, white. 



On l)ark oi' lihm, Carolina and Pennsylvania. 



Perith(!cia connected in pairs or standing sinjxly, u'lohose, black. 

 Asci elongated, suberect. 



F. subsiiiii»lex, (Scliw.) 



Splnrria siihsimple.v, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1679. 

 Pliysalospoia subsimplcx, Sacc. Syll. 171S. 



At first very thin, covered by the whitened epidermis, then j)ar- 



tially denuded as the epidermis falls away. Ostiola translucent. 



Perithecia densely crowded, partly immersed in the l)ark, often con- 



liucnt, ol)lonu-hemispherical, depressed, rugose, black,, jtapillate, the 



