MONOGRAPH OF TUE J.A130ULBENIACE.E. 333 
The appendages of this curioua species distinguish it from all others, and in tlicir successive 
one-sided branching recall those of the genus Toiatoniyces,. this one-sided lial»it being even char- 
acteristic of the anthcridifll branchlets (fig. 3). It is scarcely possible to dcterniine in the 
material available whether the inner basal cell produces a scries of I>rnnches on cither side or 
only one scries. Assuming that the last is true, the fundamental hal»ii of branching is not 
unlike that of L. Brachlnl, although the insertion of the primary series in the latter is more 
nearly horizontal. The types were taken from a specimen of the host in the ^fuscum of Com- 
parative Zoology, growing at the tips of the elytra and on the adjacent portions of the abdomen. 
LABOULnENiA Galekit^ Tliaxtcr. Plate XIX, figs. 9-12. 
Troc. Am. Acad. Arts and Set., Vol. XX^'II, p. 39. 
Perithecium becoming almost opaque, transversely punctafo, elongate, sub-cylindrical, tapering 
rather abruptly to the blunt apex ; the lip-cells turned slightly outward ; the basal wall-cells form- 
ing an abruptly differentiated, clearly defined hyaline neck-like base. Api)endages consisting of 
two basal cells, hyaline above, black below, above which rise three connected scries of superposed 
cells; one outer and two inner, each producing from three to six single simple branches, and 
forming a sub-conical body: the branches, one from each cell, tapering slightly, their distal por- 
tions straight, slightly divergent, hyaline, remotely septate; the basal portion uiorc or le.'^s 
suffused with blackish brown, more closely septate, the segments inflated and constricted at the 
blackened septa. One or two of the lower branches from the two inner series arc fertile, 
consisting of a single cell bearing terminally a group of from two to five long-necked, 
slightly curved, brownish antheridia. Insertion cell broad, free from the base of the perithe- 
cium. Receptacle variable, often elongate, cells III and IV externally or almost wholly 
blackened and opaque, the remaining cells hyaline or with brown suffusions. Spores, 50 X 5.5 /*. 
Perithccia 155 X 37 /i. Appendages (longer branches), 350/*. Total length to tip of peri- 
thecium, 375 (I. Maximum, 600 /x. 
On GaUrita janus Fabr., District of Columbia (Pergando) to Alal)ama (Ilfuderson) ; G. 
atripes Lee, Kansas ; Galerita sp., Iowa ; (7. mcxicana Dej., Mexico. 
This common and well marked species is apparently wide]}' distributed, and can hardly be 
confused with any other form unless it be the succeeding species; which is, however, immediately 
separable by the position of cell TTI, although in both the same more or less conical or pyra- 
midal base gives rise to the three vertical scries of branches, two inner and lateral and one 
outer, which are so characteristic in their apiMjarance. In some cases the tips of these branches 
have a spiral twist, which is probably accidental, but otherwise the species is a very constant 
one. I know of no other form in which the perithecium is so conspicuously punctate, the spots 
beiu'r arranged more frequently in rather definite transverse Hues and themselves often elon- 
gated transversely. The species occurs scattered indefinitely over the surface of its host, more 
often on the elytra. 
