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amphigenous, black, at length broadly confluent, formed of loosely 

 branched, interwoven, creeping hyphse 10-11 // thick. Hyphopodia 

 scattered, capitate, generally entire or a little crenate, often curved, 

 with a short, cylindrical stipe. Bristles numerous, erect, straight, tips 

 di-trichotomously divided, the branches again sometimes bifid, or more 

 rarely with 3-4 short branches near the apex. 



Perithecia gregarious, globose, tardily collapsing, rough, black, 

 175-240 n diam. Asci evanescent. Sporidia cylindrical, rounded at 

 the ends, 4-septate, constricted at the septa, dark, the middle cell 

 mostly swollen, 52-62 x 19-23 fi. 



On leaves of Sabal serrulata, Florida to Louisiana and Texas. 



B. Sporidia 3-5-septafe. 

 M. cryptocarpa, E. & M. Am. Nat. 17, p. 1284. 



Exsicc Bll. N. A. F. No. 1293. 



Spots tomentose, mostly epiphyllous, suborbicular, 2-4 mm. diam., 

 numerous and often confluent. Mycelium pale brown, creeping, sep- 

 tate, irregularly branched, bearing numerous, oblong-fusiform conidia, 

 which are pale brown, 3-4-septate, 30-40x5-9 fi, obtuse or acute 

 above, and contracted below into a short, hyaline stipe. Erect 

 bristles abundant, simple, multiseptate, black, tips entire and paler. 

 Perithecia black, subglobose, not abundant and often sterile, 180-200 fi 

 diam., collapsing, surrounded at base with a few diverging, brown, 

 septate appendages, which, like the bristles, are more or less crisped 

 or undulate above. Asci oblong-ovate, 8-spored. Sporidia brown, 

 oblong or oblong-clavate, 2-seriate, 3-5-septate, 30-50x10-12 /i. 



On leaves of Gordonia lasianthus, Florida (Martin). 



M. manca, E. & M. Am. Nat. 17, p. 1284. 



Meliola sanguinea, E. & K. Journ. Myc. II, p. 42. 

 Exsicc. EU. N. A. F. 1292. • 



Perithecia membranaceous, |-J mm. diam., subastomous, smooth, 

 or at least without any bristle-like appendages, mostly epiphyllous^ 

 and either solitary or several in a small, rather compact group, on 

 orbicular, subindeterminate patches of black, branching mycelium 

 with alternate,. obovate hyphopodia, much the same as those of M. 

 amphitricha, Fr. Asci oblong-obovate, 2-spored. Sporidia oblong- 

 cylindrical, slightly curved, 3-septate, 38-44x 12-15 [i, obtuse, hyaline, 

 becoming brown. 



On living leaves of Myrica cerifera, Florida, and on leaves of 

 Riibus trivialis {M. sanguined), in Louisiana. 



