HYPOCREACEAE 



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globoid, sometimes beaked, fleshy, waxy or waxy-membranous, bright colored, usually 

 reddish, more rarely blue, yellow or whitish, never carbonous, opening by a rou.ul 

 pore or ostiole, single, cespitose or composite in a stroma; asci and spores as .n 

 Sphaeriaceae. 



Allantosporae 



IT. 778 

 Spores i-celled, obtuse, curved-oblong. 



hyaline or olivascent 



One genus 



2 : 447, 



Perithecia separate 



I. Perithecia covered 



a. Asci 8-spored 



Allantonectria 17: 778 



Hyalosporae 



:94i, 11:354. 14:621, 16:559, 17:778 

 Spores i-celled, hyaline 



Hyponectria 2: 455 

 Thelocarpum 9: 946 



II. 



I. 



2. 

 III. 



I 



b. Asci many-spored 

 Perithecia superficial or nearly so 



a. Perithecia beaked ; spores ciliate 



b. Perithecia not beaked 

 (i) Spores smooth 

 (2) Spores ciliate or spiny 



(a) Spores i-ciliate at each end 



(b) Spores spiny, hemispheric 

 Perithecia cespitose 



Asci 8-spored 

 Asci many-spored 

 Perithecia in a subicle or stroma 

 Perithecia in a subicle, i. e., a cobwebby or cottony stroma 



Eleutheromyces 2: 455 



Nectriella 2: 448 



Heteronectria 14: 624 

 Cleistosoma A: 195, 9: 943 



Lisiella 9: 945 

 Chilonectria 2 : 453 



Peckiella 9 : 944 

 Byssonectria 2:456 



a. Paraphyses lacking, fungicole 



b. Paraphyses numerous, not fungicole 

 . Perithecia in a definite stroma 



a. Stroma effuse, globose, verruciform or linear 

 (i) Asci S-spored 



(a) Perithecia circinate, valsiform Balzania 16:561 



(b) Perithecia not circinate, mostly irregular 



X. Spores globose Battarina 2:533 



y. Spores ovate to oblong 



(x) Stroma globose or verruciform 

 m. Stroma globose, smooth, dark 



Pseudotrype 16:561 

 n. Stroma verruciform, hairy, red 



Selinia 2: 457 

 (y) Stroma lirelliform, clear 

 (z) Stroma effuse, phyllogenous 



Monographus 2:457 



(2) Asci many-spored ; phyllogenous 

 b. Stroma elongate, erect 



Polystigma 2:458 

 Moelleriella 14:626 



