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finally deciduous. Color brown, becoming black, (reddish when young)? 

 On decaying limbs, Carolina and Pennsylvania (Schweinitz). 

 Nothing definite is known of this species. 



SPHJIROSTILBE, Tul. 



Sel. Carp. Ill, p. 99. • 



Perithecia as in Nectrki, globose, soft, bright colored, growing 

 at the base of or in company with their conidia {Stilbum, Atractiuni, 

 MicTOcera). Asci elongated, 8-spored. Sporidia oblong or ovoid, 

 hyaline, uniseptate. Paraphyses none or spurious. 



Sph. flammea, Tnl, 1. c. p. 104. 



Perithecia globose, bright red, nearly- smooth, crowded on or near 

 the conidiophorus stroma {Atractium flam7neum, B. & Rav.) Asci 

 obovate-oblong, 8-spored. Sporidia ovate, obtuse, uniseptate, hyaline, 

 slightly constricted, 12-16 x 5-6 p.. The conidial fungus, as represented 

 in Rav. Fungi Car. V. 86, has the stromata at first narrow-conical, be- 

 coming finally flattened above and subspezizoid ; the conidia linear- 

 lanceolate, very large (80-100x6^ p), a little curved, 6-9-septate, hya- 

 line with a tinge of rose color. On maple bark, Carolina (Ravenel), 

 on Salix, Louisiana, (Langlois). 



Berkeley, in Grev. IV, p. 47, adds. — "There is a very distinct 

 species on Magnolia glauca, Car. Inf , No. 5005 [Attractium palli- 

 dum, B. & C), with short, fusiform spores 13 [i long, with the endo- 

 chrome retracted to either end." 



Sph. coccophila, Tul. 1. c. p. 105. 



Perithecia numerous, on and near the conidial stromata, very small, 

 o-lobose, obtuse, minutely papillate, very smooth, bright red, often 4-5 

 together, collapsing when old. Asci linear, 60-80 x 6| p. Sporidia 

 oblique, uniseriate, ovate, 10x4 //, uniseptate, subhyaline, slightly 

 constricted. 



On Alnus servulata, Pennsylvania (Michener). 



The conidial stage {Microcera coccophila, Desm.), which has been 

 sent from Florida by Dr. Martin and collected in Carolina by Ravenel 

 (P. Am. 286), has the stroma arising from various species of dead 

 bark lice. It is red, obtuse and about 2 mm. high. The conidia are 

 linear-lanceolate, 5-7 -septate and 56-65 x 5-6 /x, nearly hyaline. 



Sph. gracilipes, Tul. 1. c. p. 105. (Plate 12) 



Exsicc. Rav. F. Am. 285.— Ell. & Evrht. N. A. F. 2131. 



Perithecia collected at the base of the conidial stroma, small, 

 (i mm.), red, light pruinose, fading out. Asci cylindric-clavate. 



