MoNoGRAPH OF CHAETOMIUM AND ASCOTRICHA 205 
thickness; (b) slender, sometimes coiling in spirals, at other times 
irregularly twisted or undulate, medium olive to light yellow, 
lighter than those of type (a), about 2.5 и in thickness at base. 
Asci irregularly club-shaped, 8-spored, 88 X Іт џ, pars sporif. 
32 и. Spores when young colorless, filled with refractive globules, 
when mature dark, rich olive-brown, lemon-shaped, apiculate 
at both ends, 9.5 X 7.2 и (8.9-9.7 X 6.4-8.4), when seen edge- 
wise, compressed, 6.4 и broad. 
ExsiccATI.—Sub Ch. chartarum Ehrb.: М. A. Е. 1541 (in part). 
On paper, straw, dung and leaves from many localities in 
New England. Also from middle western and southern United 
States, Java and Ceylon (Chivers No. 24). Type locality: New- 
field, New Jersey; on paper (Ellis & Everhart in N. A. F. No. 
I541 in part.) 
Type specimens of the plant which Palliser in her monograph 
named CA. cochliodes and which are to be found in North Ameri- 
can Fungi, No. 1541, under the name Ch. chartarum Ehrb. have 
been examined by the writer. It has been discovered for the 
first time by Palliser that this is a separate species to be set 
apart from Ch. globosum Kze. It has been found frequently 
and, while its color as well as its general appearance at maturity 
may resemble Ch. globosum Kze., careful study іп cultures and 
during its earlier development furnishes sufficient evidence that 
it is to be reckoned with as a distinct species. 
It seems hardly advisable to consider Ch. flexuosum, which 
was described by Palliser (65) іп 1910, a distinct species, but 
rather as a dilapidated condition of Ch. cochliodes. Тһе type 
specimens of this plant have been found to be in extremely poor 
condition. Through the kindness of Professor Kauffman and 
r. F. J. Seaver, the writer has been provided with sufficient 
material of the original gathering to enable him to arrive at 
the conclusion that the plant is none other than Ch. cochliodes. 
Mounts of such material show, in the first place, that the pant 
are old and much weather-beaten. In most cases perithecia 
bear only rhizoidal hairs and stumps of the lateral and terminal 
hairs. One perithecium which was most perfect of all available 
shows its top to be covered with a large number of hairs which 
are stout, straight for a considerable distance, then loosely spirally 
coiled once or twice, at which point by far the largest number are 
