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ulate from the slightly prominent ostiola, texture finely cellular, dark- 

 olivaceous. Asci cylindrical, without paraphyses, 75x3J-4 /z, sub- 

 sessile, containing 8 didymous, hyaline sporidia composed of two 

 globose-cuboidal cells about 3^-4 [i and readily separating. 

 On bark of dead Magnolia gluuca, Newfield, N, J. 



H. olivkcea, C. & E. Urev. II, p. 92. 



Stromata scattered, consisting at first, of patches of thin white 

 tomentum ^-1 cm. diam., becoming carnose and subpulvinate and of 

 an olive-yellow shade, at length dark olive or nearly black, and punc- 

 tate from the slightly prominent ostiola. Asci cylindrical, 65-75 x 

 3J-4 fi, contracted below into a substipitate base, and containing 8 

 two-celled, hyaline sporidia, the cells nearly globose, about 3 fi diam. 

 and readily separating. 



On decaying pine wood, Newfield, N. J. What appears to be 

 the same was found on decaying bark of Sassafras lying on the ground. 



H. Stereonim, Schw. 



Spfusria Stere&rutn, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1183. 

 Hypocrea Stereorum, (Schw.) Cke. Syu. No. 92. 



" Undulate-confluent, applanate, margin sublobate, surface plicate, 

 subpulvinate, flesh-color, becoming brown ; when young, covered with 

 a white tomentum and then more distinctly pulvinate, sometimes soli- 

 tary, but generally confluent in elongated strips in the folds of the 

 matrix ; substance quite soft, but not gelatinous ; surface granular from 

 the prominent perithecia, which are distinctly ostiolate and not immersed 

 in the whitish subjacent stroma; seminal dust (sporidia) copious. Often 

 confluent for an inch in length, the separate, cushion-like stromata 3-4 

 lin. broad; margin partially free." 



On Stereum fasciatum, Bethlehem, Pa. (Schw.), on Polyporux 

 Gvrtisii South Carolina (Ravenel). 



We have seen no specimens, and copy the above description from 

 Schw. Cooke, in Grev. XII, p. 78, says the cells of the didymous 

 sporidia are subglobose and hyaline. 



H. fungicola, Karst. Myc. Fenn. 11, p. 204. 



Hypocrea Karsteniana, Niessl, in Rehm'.s Asc. 67S. 



Stroma irregularly effused, incrusting, even, waxy, tolerably thick, 

 3-12 cm. in extent, but sometimes interrupted and shorter. At first 

 white farinose with a floccose margin, finally citron- or lemon-yellow, 

 pale inside, thickly punctate from the rather prominent ostiola. Peri- 

 thecia sunk in the stroma, crowded, ovate, pale. Asci cylindrical, 

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