800 Discomycetae, Dernnatencpfjj, Scolecosporfp, Pocillum. 



4. Scleroderris ccerulea Pat. Buli. Soc Myc. de Fr. 1896, p. 220. — 2995 

 Ascoinatibus erumpenti-superiicialibiis, sessilibus, rarius solitariis, 

 ssepius iu caespitulos minutos, vix 1 mm. latos sociatis (insimul 

 2-8), glabris, nigris, concavis, margine crasso, "^ mm. diam.; con- 

 textu coriaceo, celluloso-anguloso, intense coeruleo-brunneo; sporidiis 

 fusoideo-ovoideis, rectis v. subiniBquilateralibus, byalinis, trisepta- 



tis, 23 « 10. 



llah. ad ramos corticatos putres in ^quatoria v. Lagebheim). 



5. Scteroderris virescens Mass. Journ. of Bot. 1896, p. 148, t. 357, -2996 

 fig. 6. — Ascomatibus interdum solitariis, subinde in ccEspitulos 

 sociatis (2-3 insimul) et basi pIuB minus connatis, suberumpentibus, 

 primitus clausis et globosis, dein expansis, margine incurvo, gla- 

 bris, atro-brunneis, siccis olivaceis, circiter 1 mm. diam., tenacibus; 

 hypotbecio et excipulo ex hypbis gracillimis intricatis viridibus 

 marginem versus in cellulas transformatis compositis; ascis sub- 

 cylindraceis, apice rotundatis, basi abrupte in pedicellura brevis- 

 simum contractis, jodi ope non coetrulescentibus, 86-96 =»* 18 ; spo- 

 ridiis octonis, irregulariter disticbis, hyalinis, levibus, rectis v. 

 leniter curvulis, cylindrico-ellipsoideis, utrinque obtusis, 6-7-sepTba- 



tis, 32-36 V 8-9 ; paraphysibus numerosis, gracillimis, septatis, apice 

 corymboso-ramosis, ramulis sursum incrassatis et viridi-tinctis. 

 Hah. in Jigno dejecto putri, Bethlehem Amer. bor. 



6. Seteroderris Arundinaris Atk. BuU. Oornell Univ. III, n. 1, 2997 

 1897, p. 14. — Ascomatibus sessilibus, applanatis, '/j-1 mm. diam. 

 interdum margine irregulariter incurvato, atro-brunneis ; disco 

 pallido; ascis cylindraceis v. clavatis, 100-120 « 12-14, paraphysatis, 

 octosporis ; sporidiis distichis, clavato-cyJindraceis vel, fusoideis, 

 hyalinis, plerumque 3-47septatis, 36-40 '^ 3-4. 



Hab. in culmis emortuis Arundinaride tectse, Auburn, 

 A-Iabama Amer. bor. 



Sect 6. Scoiecospor». 



POCILLUM De Not. — Syll. VIII, p. 605. 



1. Pocillum Neetltiami Mass. et Crossl. British Fnngus-Flora IV, 2998 

 p. 498. — Hypophyllum, sparsum, subcylindraceuro v. turbinatum, 

 . in basim stipitiformem brevissimam angustatum, disco circulari, 

 planum, truncatum, albidum v. subcarneolum, siccum subsuccineura, 

 circiter y^-Y, mm. latum altumque, contextu ex hyphis parallelis, 

 septatis, ad marginem brunneis, 4 a. crassis, interdum ramosis; ascis 



