t m 





[if 



™ 



1 : 



f 111 



'H 



474 



Sporiiliii iilliiiiti)iil, liyiiliiic, !4x3| //. SjM'i'iiiatia iiiimik', 3-4 .\ I ft. 

 Oil a root iA' Ii/ii}(l()(feii<I.ron, IJotlilcliciii, Pa. (Scliw.j. 



V. aiioniia, (Seliw.) 



SpliiCi in tiiinmia, Scliw. Syii. N. Am. 1316. 



ra/.ui uiiouiia, Scliw. Ckt. Valsei of the V. rt. No. 34. 



(Joiivex, invtiular, Irue, iiigosf, stroma Ibriiiod of the wood, nUi- 

 <'rc'oiis-l)hu:k. O.stiola exsortcti, distant, Itlaek, smooth. Sporidia (sec. 

 Ht'ik.) 10 // loiiii-, with iiiiist'|itatc stylos]' aro.s in otiior j>oritht't;ia. Sjio- 

 ridia (set;. Ckt'.) 7-S /i long. 



On Itohinia, North Carolina (Seliw.^. 



Ap]tarc'iitly ditVeront Irom the Kiiro]»can sjHU'ies of the same nainr 

 which appertains to Pneiidot'uhsti profiina. 



V. miciostoiiia, (Fers.) 



Spliaria microstoma, Pers. Syn. p. 40. 



i'lilsa iiticnistniiift, Fr. Smiima. p. 411 



Stroma roniidish-oval at Itase, eoiivex or more rarely conical, 

 attenuated al)riii)tly into an oval, elliptical or oriiicular <lisk, immersed 

 in the outer layer of the inner hark, of which the suiface as.siiiiies a 

 chestnut color. Disk crniiijicnt tliroiiiih transverse cracks in the ejii 

 dermis. Pcrithecia (5-20 in a stroma, in a single layer, miinitc. 

 crowded. Ostiola somewhat thickened, rounded or almost gloI)(w. 

 altltreviated, Itlack and shining, crowded in a plane disk. Asci oldoiiii 

 or clavate, sessile, 8-s]»ored, 40-48 x (5-8 //. Sporidia crowded or 

 l)iseriate, allantoid, hyaline, 8-10 x 2-2^ /i. Spermogoiiia cytisjioroid. 

 many-celled. Spermatia allantoid, 5-() x IJ /i, on long Itasitlia. 



On liark, Pennsylvania and Carolina (8chw.). 



V. allostoma, (Scliw.) 



Sp/iteiia allosloma, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1,(32 

 I'alsa iillostoHUi, Stev. 1. c. No. lofi 



At first immersed in tiie wood, with only tiie glolto.se-stellate <jsti- 

 ola prominent, finally emergent and almost iiva. Conceptacles large, 

 and often extensively confluent. Ostitila at length becoming terete, 

 generally dilated at the ajtex, rigid. Perithecia rather large, crowdtxi. 

 almost entirely without any stroma. The groups of coiiflneiit coiict^p- 

 tacles finally form, as it were, a coiitiuuous crust. Sporidia (sec. Stev- 

 enson 1. c.) i)x 3 /i, allantoid, hyaline. 



On a log of Rohinki, near Lancaster, Pa. (Schw.). 



V. nioiiadelplia, Fr. Summa V^eg. So. p. 411. 



Sphceria monadelpha, Fr. S. M. II, p. 382. 

 Vaha monadelpha, Fr. Summa Veg. Sc. p. 411. 

 Kxsicc. Desm. PI. Cr. Kd I, 961, Kd. 2nd 261. 



ii . t 



