THAXTER. — MONOGRAPH OF THE LABOVl,BI\ IACI E. Ill 
striatums on the cells of its receptacle. Its clear amber-color is also peculiar. The Dccurreiin . f mnn- 
strous spores in one smaller specimen is noted above, and illustrates the dimmer of ascribing loo much 
importance even to considerable variations in spore measurements. 
Ceratomyces minisculus Thaxter. 
This species which always grows on the pale lower margin of the right elytron, hash, n found M 
Tropiffernus striolatus Lee. and T. lateralis Fabr., at Eustis, Florid; on T. limlmlii \a-c from W'ashing- 
ton; on T. dorsal in Brulle from California. In the Sharp Collect ion from Brazil on T. lateral i No lis I: 
undetenni 
It is al- 
ways readily distinguished by its small size, and almost wholly opaque receptacle. 
COREOMYCES Thaxter. 
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XX Will, p. 50. June. 1002. 
Mature individual consisting of a single series of superposed cells terminated by a single peritlv ium. 
Receptacle attached by a more or less rhizoid-like foot and consisting of three superposed 1 1 U th. iipp r 
of which becomes divided distally by successive transverse septa; these divisions resulting in a series of 
superposed cells, from each of which arises, on one side, a single, rarely two, branched antheridial |>eml 
the members of the series thus resulting being superposed in a single vertical row. Perithecimn 
consisting of an undifferentiated stalk-cell immediately above the appendicular ., lis, which is follow* 
directly by the ascigerous cavity, the basal and wall-cells being wholly obliterated in matur individuali 
except at the tip. 
The development of the individuals in this type is unlike that found elsewhere in the Uboulbeni 
ales. The young individual, Plate LXXI, figs. 8 and 17, consists of a series of supeiposed cells, three in 
number, from the uppermost of which appendiculate cells are separated distally. 1 he distal portion 
ages ; 
I 
lie 
rposed 
which might be taken for a triehogyne, but is merely a sterile termination. There are thus three regions, 
a basal, a distal and a middle region, of which the first forms the receptacle proper, the * oond produo 
the perithecium, and the middle gives rise to the antheridial appendages; an arrangement quite unhke 
r ' ° _..--.•. 1 1 xA UU ni ...h.,. nf 1 lo, Kill slTH 
that seen in any other instance. As the individual continues to develop, thesubbasal ceU of the dista r, 
which is finally quite obliterated, becomes proliferous distally, sending branch, tnto the cavity ol the eel 
immediately above it (fig. 9). At about this time the sterile terminal appendage abeadj referred £ .„ 
J v o / _ ,i • :i„ +,,.. ,.-> Li r heir Id ''S. 
appear, corresponding to the "poster 
-cell" of the peri 
16-18 
geucm, M scribed in my Monograpn, pp. - > ■"« -•;-. - "> - • 
these, cases arise as branches from the stalks -II (p). _ I he further deve - 
opment appears also to correspond v> 
type of peraectum, in thai um 
m il nmi nmpflm eells are form 
rise to a series ot branches irom whicii wan-ti m», p.^cim ~~~, t ■ . 
Of the two origin.. «>b one, Fig. 12, (o), a, in *-.-* ■?« l^tTt^ S'l 
appears 
sec 
the cells above, of which there may be 
hing 
term 
exact cond 
in figs. 11-12. I have found it impracticable to draw the 
plexus of penetrating branches and the figures given (figs. __ 
a single plane. In fig. 12 for example the branches are represented in a positio 
seen 
n a little 1 in w the median 
