195] ATKINSON—HYPOCREA ALUTACEA 415 
Nylaria. In a footnote on page 381 of his Swmma Veg. Scand. he 
definitely cites X vlaria flabellijormis (Schw.) B., X. pumila Linn., X. 
comosa and X. collabens Mont., as pertaining to the subgenus Fracidia. 
In 1864 he transfers Sphaeria alutacea Pers., which he had formerly 
placed in Cordyceps (/. c.), to the subgenus Fracidia, where he writes 
itas follows: “Sphaeria s. Fracidia alutacea,*? but differing in color 
fom the species of Xylaria first placed in this subgenus, as Cord yceps 
nililaris differs from C. ophioglossoides.” This short paper by 
falzs is a critical review of CurREY’s Synopsis of the jructification 
ij the compound S phaeriae of the Hookerian Herbarium.*8 CURREY 
(.¢., 260) employs the genus Sphaeria, which is divided into sections 
and divisions. Fries in his annotations on certain species (/. ¢) 
netely follows CuRREY in writing Sphaeria as the genus, the s. prob- 
ibly standing for subgenus. It is therefore difficult to see how 
‘Sh. s. Fracidia alutacea” can be taken as raising Fracidia from 
subgeneric to generic rank, and if the name is to be employed for a 
genus it should be used for those species of Xylaria first ascribed to 
itby Fries and cited above. The TuLasnes* list Fracidia alulacea 
i their synonymy of H ypocrea alutacea, but this could not be taken 
% taising Fracidia to generic rank. Podostroma Karsten?’ (1892) 1S 
psn the generic name to be employed for our plant, instead of 
docrea Lindau4® (1897), although it was employed as 4 subgenus 
by Saccarpo (I. c.) in 1883; but Saccarpo did not include the 
Hypocrea alutacea in his subgenus. The International Botanical 
ngtess at Vienna, June 190s, recommends that when the species 
s Subgenus are raised to generic rank, the name of the subgenus 
nwhich they were placed be employed, but this is a recommendation 
fructification of the 
# Adnotata ad age eer is of the 
ad Cel. Fr. Currey dissertationem; Synopsis ©: i Vik XXII, pp- 
ities ® of the Hookerian Herbarium in Act. Soc. Linn. Lon 
: et 313-35. Bot. Zeit. 22: 189, 190. 1864. is of the 
: “ ynops: 
ca Linn. Soc. London 22: 257-286. pls. 45-49. 18593 ee ad 
“ation of the simple Sphaeriae,”’ etc. Idem 313-335: Pls- SP ghee 
= as hten = : 
Carp. Fung. 35. 1865. The reference is “1m re of referring to 
ich SCHLECHTENDAL was an editor. 
is a8 Farrow of Harvard University and Dr. BRITTON of the 
“n in straightening out this reference. 
re 31:294. 1892. 
Engler und Prantl Pflanzenf. 11: 364. 1897- 
