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Australia.; common tlirouiiliout the eastern United States and reported 

 liv Dr. IJarkness from California. 



CAMILLEA, Fr. 



Summa Veg. Sciind. p. 3S2, Mont. Syll. Crypt, p. 207. 



Stromata vertical, olilong, carbonaceous, stipitate or sessile, stro- 

 niatically connected at I)ase. Perithecia linear or bottle-slinpcd. 

 inemUranaceons, included in the upjier part of the stroma. Asci 

 ohovate, 8-sporcd, with capillary paraphyses. Sporidia con<i:lobate, 

 ()l)lon«i', continuous, brown. 



Some of the extra-limital species have the stroma truncate or cu])- 

 sliaped above, and the sporidia aj)pendiculate. 



C. Sagrwiiua, (iMoiit.) 



Hypoxyloit Sagraana, Mont. Cuba, p. 341. tab. 12, fig. .(. 

 Phylacia Sagraana, Mont. Syll. Crypt. No. 921. 

 Camilka Sagtaana, H. & C. K.\ol. Fungi, p. 285. 



Stromata cespitose-connate, ol)long-ol)ovate, stipitate, carbona- 

 ceous, l)lack, fragile; fertile head about 1 cm. long by 5-6 mm. wide, 

 obtusely jjointed at the apex, divided by a horizontal partition aci'oss 

 the middle, the space al)ove l>eing occupied by the pei-ithecia, and the 

 cavity below loosely filled with pseudoparenchymatic matter. Stipe 

 thick, al)out 1 cm. long. Pcrithecia membranaceous, subcylindrical. 

 about 5 mm. long, with a slender neck piercing the crustaceous outer 

 layer of the stroma and terminating in obscurely punctiform ostiola. 

 Asci obovate-clavate, sul)sessile, 21-28x10-14 «, 8-spored, (par- 

 nphysate)? Sporidia conglobate, oblong-elliptical, obtuse, almost trun- 

 cate at the ends, continuous, brown, 10-17 x 10-12 //. 



On fallen branches, Nicaragua (Wright). 



The above diagnosis is from specc. in Iloib. U. S. Do])t. of Agri- 

 culture, collected by Wright in Nicaragua. The young stromata are 

 at first entirely enclosed in a common carlionaceous stroma (see PI. 38, 

 fig. 2) from which they finally emerge separate and distinct. The 

 specimens ditfer somewhat from those collected in Cuba by Ptippig, 

 and figured as Camillea Sagrwana by Dr. Rehni, in Hedwigia, 1889, 

 ))p. 300 and 301, in l)eing distinctly stipitate, with the stromata not 

 constricted in the middle; the sporidia also, in the Cuban specimens, 

 are smaller (9-10x4//). Currcy in his Compound /S7>/ir«r/rt« (plate 

 XIjV, fig. 24) also figures the spoi-idia of M. Sagrmana and makes 

 tlicm 10 n long, but whether the Nicaragua specc. are specifically dis- 

 tinct, can on.ly l)o determined by the examination of a more complete 

 sot of specimens. 



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