394 THAXTER. — MONOGRAPH OF THE LABOULBENIACE^E. 
its antheridial branches, and its antheridia, which are relatively large, and usually exceed the sterile 
brandies in length, a condition seen in no other species. The cells of the inner primary appendages 
may all bear such antheridial branches, but in a few instances the uppermost is replaced, as in fig. 11, 
by a sterile branch similar to those of the outer appendage. The perithecium is often more deeply suffused 
than is represented in the figures and the wall-cells seem, in old individuals/to be spirally twisted. 
Laboulbenia Galeritje Thaxter. 
This fine species which is distinguished by its contrasting black and white color, black punctate 
I rithechim, and normal receptacle in which cells III and IV are separated by a horizontal septum, is the 
common species on Galerita in temperate and tropical North America; but does not appear to extend 
outh beyond the Isthmus, though specimens have been examined from Nicaragua and the West Indies. 
The antheridia appear to occur always in terminal groups of two or three. Additional material has been 
examined from the following sources. On Galerita sp., Iowa: on G. Janus Fabr., Illinois: on G. Cali- 
joniica Lee., California; U. S. Nat Mus., No. 47, Galerita sp., Florida. Hope Collection No. 253 on G. 
atripes Lee., Texas. Berlin Mus., No. 970 on G. tenebriosa Klg., Port au Prince, Haiti: No. 967 on 
Galerita sp., Nicaragua: Sharp Collection, No. 1192 on G. Forreri Bates, Presidio, Mexico. British Mu- 
eum ; No. 712 on G. Mexicana, Chaud., Oaxaca, Mexico, No. 711. 
Laboulbenia subpunctata, nov. sp. Plate LXIV, figs. 5-6. 
Perithecium relatively large, longer than, sometimes nearly twice as long as, the receptacle; usually 
traight, sometimes curved, cylindrical or slightly inflated, dirty yellow, becoming tinged more or less 
deeply with rather rich brown; the lower fifth or half, rarely more, flecked by scattered dark rounded 
pots, which sire larger and more irregular in shape toward the base; the tip rather abruptly distinguished, 
mostly abruptly darker; the apex hyaline yellowish, the pore terminal, or slightly sublateral: a well 
distinguished hyaline stalk slightly narrower than the base of the perithecium, as a rule, its length not 
equalling its breadth. Receptacle normally relatively short and compact, the basal cell quite hyaline 
and contrasting abruptly with the deeply suffused subbasal cell from which it is obliquely separated, and 
below which it bulges more or less prominently on the posterior side: cells II and III becoming quite 
opaque, the former often projecting more or less conspicuously below the latter, which extends up to the 
lower outer angle of the insertion-cell, below which it forms a usually well defined rounded projection: 
cells I\ and V becoming deeply suffused, but seldom opaque, their long axes parallel with that of cell 
HI: cells II-V nearly hyaline immediately below the contrasting black insertion-cell: cell VI relatively 
long, somewhat less deeply suffused especially at its base, the cells above it somewhat prominent, con- 
cotorous often flecked with darker irregular patches. Insertion-cell broad, black, the opacity involving 
the basal cells of the outer and inner appendages more or less completely; the former extending as a black 
rounded prominence external to the base of the branch (usually broken off) which it bears. The outer 
pact 
constrictions 
.award toward the base of the perithecium, each bearing a single simple branch, the branches having a 
basal two-celled part, with ±f± ' ....... r *> 
tapering distal hyaline poi 
inner appendage consistin 
giving 
proper: 
juely supcr- 
pued I l,a , ,e long ax ls of the ,n„er is nearly vertical; the thme or four lower (outer) ones riving rise to 
a , heruhal branches, consu*ng „f . basal eell about twice as long as broad, distinguished bvu Waekish 
S2££lE2 L'J ^ ^ WT- -»^ «~*«Tb h-Z Average 
perithecium 400-450 /i (300-550 
1 
about 
ding stalk, 180 X 4^-270 X 50 ft, average 200 X 40 fL Appendages 
125—150 //. tllP Sfprila Kron^An 1 ~l lor\ n mm ^ * m 
gest 120 ft. Spores 44 X 5 [i. 
n n /<„/„-;*„ t> • * . ••-^uu.ucoiuiig^i^uM. v^ pores 44 A O «. 
On OUe, ,la sp., R„ sa no, Argent™. Paris Museum No. 100. On Gofer* s,,, SieJ Genu, 
