57!) 



A. siistnitiim, (IMoui.) 



S/>lurn'ii > listen I mil, I'lowr. Oriv. VII, p. 7J. 

 Anlliosloma sintiiiliiiii. Sacc, Syll. 1120. 



PcritlicciM imiiiorsiMl. with tlicii- (tstiola criiiiipoiit lictwccu tlio 

 IiIcmcIkmI (ilicis of the woud. Asci t'vliiulrifal. laO xMO-lf) /i. Sjio- 

 ridiii ovoid, diiik lirowii. liccoiiiiiiii' Idiick, 20-2') x 10-11 ft. 



Oil Itk'iR'licd liiidis (){' Arr(ost(ip/ii//ns, California. 



A. |)olyiiesia, (B. & V.) 



Splue>ia Polynesia, H. & C. Orcv. IV, p. n(\ 

 A iilhosloma Polynesia, Sacc. Syll. iim. 



•Fdiiuiiiii' little oltloiii:', Idac'k s|»ots which arc studdod with the 

 iiHtiola. Asci very .slender. Sporidia oliloiiu', Itrowii, 7 // long.'' 

 On wood. Mountains of Virainia. 



** Stroma vaJsoid or tvherculiform. 



A. ^astriiiiim, (Fr.) 



SpliiTi ia gasliina, Vr. S. M. II, p, 379. 

 Sphtrria ini\iriihiiis. Sow. I^ng. Fungi, lab. 37.1, fiR. y. 

 Hypii.xylon ffas/rinuM, Fr, Sumiiia, 3.S3. 

 Afi/oj,'iiiiiii>ui fcastiiiiKiii. Till. Sel. Carp. II, p. S9. 

 iJiHilii iui> ia yilschkei, Fckl, Synil). p. 230. 

 Aiilhiislnma i;aslriiiiim, Sacc. Syll. 1129. 

 Kxsicc. Fckl. F. Kh. 2005.— Kab. F. K. (J27.— Sacc. M. Veil. 1441.— Desm. PI. Cr. Eil. I. 

 1254, Kil. II, 7.S.(. 



Stroma varial)le; when seated on the liare wood, sujjcrfioial or 

 very nearly so, deprcsso(l-«ilol»f)se or pulvinate, black, smooth and 

 sliiiiinji' outside, 2-4 mm. l)road; when immer.'^ed in the liark, and cov- 

 (■red Ity the raised and lilaekened cftidermis, hemispherical or convex, 

 disk erumpent: in either ease whitish inside, hut enclosed in a distinct, 

 lilack stratum, which shows as a hlack, circumscrilnng line in a hori- 

 zontal section. I'erithecia 8-40 crowded in the hottom of the stroma, 

 2-1 mm. diam.. ovate, with thick, Itlack, coriaceous walls, and stout, 

 cylindrical, elongatetl necks, which, in the superficial stromata, on wood, 

 rise straight through the stroma, with their oliscurc, papilliform ostiola 

 erumjtent over the whole of the upper surface, hut when the stroma is 

 liui'ied in the l)ark, converging and erumpent in the exposed disk. 

 .\sci cylindrical, short-stipitate. 00-1 20 x 5// (p. s{). about 80 //), jiar- 

 aphysate, S-spored. Sjioridia uniseriate, ohlong or oblong-elliptical, 

 ends rounded and olituse, straight, dark brown, becoming opake or 

 nearly l)lack, 10-14x4-4^ n (10-14x5-6 /u. Winter). 



On bark of dead Ulmtis, Canada (Dcarncss), on oak, Carolina and 

 Ceorgia (Ravencl). 



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