THAXTER. — MONOGRAPH OF THE LABOULBKM kCEM. L'07 
Smeringomyces anomalus now comb. Plate XI.II, figs. 41-12. 
Rhachomyces anomalus Thaxter. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XW VIII. p. 2& June 1002. 
Male (?) individual bristle-like, composed of about four superposed cells, nearly opaque, Imder, 
tapering to the hardly differentiated small pointed foot. 
Female (?) individual. Receptacle relatively small, consisting primarily of four superposed <«4b 
tapering slightly to the relatively large pointed foot. The basal cell relatively large, the third hearing 
distally and posteriorly one or two stout bristle-like, simple, rigid, black-brown, hyaline-tipped appeml- 
ages; the fourth cell becoming divided to several smaller cells from which arise, a usually less suffused 
primary external appendage, the perithecium, and one or two secondary bristle-like apj>endages: the 
appendages about five in all, relatively large, appressed, together more or less completely surrounding th< 
base of the perithecium and extending nearly to its tip. Perithecium tinged with purplish brown, or nearly 
hyaline, the body relatively long, very slightly inflated, broader distally, tapering slightly to the blunt tip, 
from which the apex forms a long pointed, hyaline, lateral or subterminal projection toward a large curved, 
horn-like, stout, hyaline outgrowth of the perithecium, which, arising externally just below the tip, extend 
upward beyond the apex over which it is slightly recurved (or more rarely curved away from the tip 
ending in a bluntly pointed extremity. Spores 46X4/1. Perithelia 7-". !>() X 2< -'•"> ft, the outgrowth 
35-45 X 14 p. The longer appendages 75 ft. Receptacles 35 45 a. Total length to tip of perithecium 
110-125 pt. 
On Conosoma pubescent Payk., "Waverley, Mass. 
This species grows appressed on the scattered bristles which cover the body of its host ami appear 
to be rather rare. Though minute, its form is strikingly peculiar owing to the beak-like apex and horn- 
like appendage of its perithecium. It is often associated on the same individual with tin- more common 
Stkhomyces Conosoma!. The host is a small and very active Staphylinid which is found commonly in 
rotten wood. 
ACOMPSOMYCES Thaxter. 
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XXXVII. p. 37. 
June 
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Antheridial appendage consisting of a stalk-cell wholly united to the receptacle, or nearly so, ami three 
appendage 
Coriicaritt) 
superposed cells which form the appendage proper : the terminal ecu ueam.g u«*-«j «- -^ , ■■ 
theridium, the subterminal cell sterile and the lowest cell bearing distally two or three anthend.a. Peri- 
thecium furnished with a stalk-cell, five and six wall-cells being present in the rows. 1 Behogyne 
producing clavate branches which bear distally several nearly S\ thermal receptive papilla* 
Although the type of this genus is a very simple one, and the species differ withm very narrow html 
it is extremely well marked, and essentially constant. The appendage, except for the rtenk subtermi- 
nal cell, is very like a simple form of Stigmutmnyrr,, though J^f^™* «, ^'lmi 
outcurved necks are not all produced on the same side of the nna QU '" f ,s (r ' ,,11,s - "' 
however, it seems closely allied. The appearances seen in the i 
a single specimen was obtained, gave the impression that in tins genu,, a* u. ~^*™*~;~ ' 
on A the basal cells of the perithecium became disorganized, so that the cavity of the sta k-cell and 
perithecium were confluent. Sufficient material, however, of other forms, shows that tins ,s not the case, 
.he basal cells being clearly defined at maturity. The species all appear to be rare a least ****™» 
tion of great numbers of hosts has yielded very few infested specimens, and m only two m, a. u, s h. e 
young individuals been found. Three specimens, however, bear tnehogynes (figs. 8 and 1. X A 
that L unique from the peculiar differentiation of the receptive parts which appear a> £r££» 
cal vesicles, as shown in the figures. The hosts are the smallest, with he exception of I m h*f*rj* on 
which Pahonlhenia* have been found, and are common in piles of weed or gra etc. 
