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C. palustris, Berk. & Br. Linu. .louni. 1. c. %. 5. 



Cavnose-suherose, dark, dirty flesh-colored, stipe cylindrical, bifid, 

 or trifid above, 25-50 mm. long, including the clavate, siibcvlindrical 

 head which is rougliened by the projecting ostiola. Sporidia filiform, 

 separating into small (1| p.,) globose joints. 



On dead larvs in damp ground, Carolina (Ravcnol). 



0. stylophora, Berk. & Br. Linn. Journ. 1. c. fig. 3. 



Yellow. Stipe slender, 12-18 mm. long, ^ mm. thick. Head 

 much elongated, with the surface nearly smooth. Pcrithecia immersed. 



On dead larvae, Carolina (Ravenel). 



The specimen in Ravenel's Fungi Car. Exsicc. V, No. 49, has 

 the slender stem a little over 2 cm. long, the ascigerous part occupy- 

 ing a medial position, cylindrical, and slightly enlarged, about 8 mm. 

 long by 1 mm. thick, with a sterile, slender beak, about ^ cm. lonu. 

 being a prolongation of the stipe, but the specimen is apparently imma- 

 ture, being without ascd or sporidia. 



C. clavulkta, (Schw.) (Plate 15) 



Sphtzria clavulata, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1155. 

 Torrubia pistiUaricEfoyjnis, B. & Br. Brit. Fung, 969 ? 

 The Syn. '^Torrubia cinerea, EU" in Sacc. SyU. rests on some error, 

 Exsicc, Thum. M. U. 1258. 



From specimens collected by Prof. Peck, and distributed in de 

 Thuemeu's Mycotheca Universalis, No. 1258, we have drawn the fol- 

 lowing description. Stroma simple, clavate, about Sx^ mm,, consist- 

 ing of a light-cinereous stipe, surmounted by a black, ovate, or elliptical 

 head, about 1 mm. high and | mm. thick, roughened by the rounded, 

 prominent perithecia, which are of coarse cellular structure, and only 

 imperfectly perforated above. Asci subsessile, broadest in the middle, 

 contracted above, and rounded at the apex, 80-95 x 8-10 fi. Sporidia 

 filiform, multiseptate, 40-70x1^-2 /,/, joints 3-5 /i long. 



On dead scale insects (Lecanium), on living branches of Frux- 

 intoi and Prinos, N. Y. (Peck). On l)ranches of Clethra, Newfield, 

 \. J., on Carpiiuis, Canada (Dearness). 



In Sacc. Syllogc II, p. 568, the species represented by the above 

 specimens is made a synonym of C. pistillaricefornds, B. & Br., but ii' 

 the two species are the same, the name of Schweinitz has priority, 

 and it is quite certain that the specimens in M. U. 1258, are the gen- 

 uine C. clavulata Schw. 



