;'sr))(nt,(', 38-40 x S-10 «. In tlio XcwIicM spocc. nccasiDiiiilly a (Vcc 

 >.|ioii(liuiii iimv lio IoiiimI witli 4 scptn, luit tliis is (Wt'cptioiial. 



31. fusisporum, ((7ke.) 



fMfihium fusispoi u»i , Ckc. Orcv. IV. \i. \\\. 

 AfyliluiioH /i4sis/>oru»i , Sncc. Syll. 5712. 

 Exsicc. i;il. N. A. F. H.sS. 



Pci'itlieci.i erect, expanded above IVoiii a narrow Itase, laterally 

 I'oiiipresHed, thin and fraj^'ile, shaped like the blade of a hatchet with 

 tlie corners rounded olV, l)lMck and sul)shinini>', about 400 // broad and 

 liiuli, liiudy striate l>oth lon<;itndinalIy and tninsversely. Asci cylin- 

 drical, short-stipitate, paraphysate, 100-110 x 8-10 ji. Sporidia irre<;u- 

 liirly biseriate, liisoid, yellowish, nearly straijiht, 40-50x4-5 //, about 

 Tseptate. 



Not uncommon around Ncwfield, N. J., on old pitchy pine wood. 



TRYBLIDIl IM, Diifuur. 



Aun. Sci. Nat. XIII, t. lo, fig. 3. 



Perithccia erunipcnt-superficial, oblong or lanceolate, corneo- 



coriaceous; lips swollen and open. Asci paraphysate, elongated, 



S-spored. Sporidia oblong, 1-3-septate, dark-colored. 



The genus belongs really in the Discotnycetes, but lor the present 

 we include it here. 



* SpoHdia nniseptate. 

 Ti'. hysteriiinm, Diifoiir, 1. c. 



Tryhlidiuni rii/iilitiii, Sprcii;;. var. simplex, E. & R. Joiirii. Mycol. V, p. 30. 

 Hysteriiim clevatitin, Pcrs. Myc. Eiir. I, tab. I, fig. 4. 

 llystetogyaphium rlevalum, IXsiii. XXII, Not. p. i,S. 

 Exsicc. Dcsni. PI. Crypt. VA. I, No. 996, id. Ed. II, 296.— Moug. & Nestl. Stirps. Vog. 1070 



Perithccia erumpent-superficial, the central part attached, the 

 ends free, 2-3 mm. long, 1 mm. or more wide, slaty-black, at first sub- 

 glol)ose, closed and covei-ed, then erumpent and opening with w 

 roundish aperture which soon I)ecomes elongated, expo.sing tlie ellip- 

 tical, brick-red disk; lijis swollen, incurved but not closed, when dry. 

 tiaiisversely wrinkled. Asci cylindi-ical, 120-U)0 (p. sp. 110)xl5- 

 IC) /f, overtopped by the al)undant parajthyses. Sporidia uniseriate. 

 elliptical or ovate, nniseptate and constricted, daik brown. 18 22 x 

 .s-10 /y, (25-30 X 12-14 //. Kehm: 20-28 x 12-15 fu Sacc). 



On a dead lind>, Ocean Springs, Miss. (Eai'le). 



The Mississippi sj)ecc. agree with those in Desm. Exsc, but we 

 cnn not make the sporidia as large as stated by Rehm an<l Saccardo. 



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