118 



BARYA, Fckl. 



Symb. p. 93. 



Perithecia carnosej subdiaphanous, at length of the consistence of 

 horn, superficial, conic-acute, nestling in a loose, cottonj^, conidia- 

 bearing mycelium. Conidia oblong, obscurely uniseptate, obtuse at 

 each end. Asci elongated-lanceolate, acuminate abo^c, obtuse below, 

 8-spored, stipe globular. Sporidia filiform, continuous, about as long 

 as the asci, hyaline. 



B. parasitica, Fckl. 1. c. 



Perithecia gregarious, free, conical, acute, subventricose in the 

 middle, finally compressed, about the size of the perithecia oi Nectria 

 coccinea, glabrous, yellowish-green, diaphanous, becoming opake, dark 

 brown, seated in a conidiophorous mycelium, first white, then yellowish- 

 green, finally brown, crowned with a terminal white globule. Conidia 

 oblong, 14 X 5 /z, hyaline. Asci lanceolate, acuminate, globose-stipi- 

 tate at base. 8poridia nearly as long as the asci, filiform, continuous, 

 hyaline. Parasitic on Bertia morifonnix, (Germany); Var. ceapitosa, 

 Pk. 43d Rep. p. 33, has the perithecia crowded in dense tufts and 

 sometimes tapering above into a rather long neck, asci and sporidia 

 slenderer and longer. 



On Bertia moriformis, Catskill ^lountains, N. Y. 



We have seen no specimens and ijuote from the authors cited. 



OPHIONEOTRIA, Sacc. 



Mich, I. p. 323. 



Pei-ithecia globose-conical, superficial, papillate, subcarnose, bright- 

 colored (red, yellow &c). Asci 8-spored. Sporidia filiform, multisep- 

 tate or multinucleate. 



0. cerea, (B. & C.) 



Spharia cerea, B. & C. Grev; IV, p, io8. 



Calonectria cerea, Sacc, SyU, 4967. 



Dialonectria cerea, Cke, Syn. 476. 



Dialonectria fulvida, E, & E. Journ. Mycol, II, p. 136. 



Ophionectria Everhartii, Ell, & Galw. 1. c. VI, p. 32. 



Perithecia gregarious, ovate-globose, 160-175 /i diam., dull, dirty 

 yellow and granular-pruinose, except the rather acutely papilliform 

 ostiolum. Asci oblong-cylindrical, 75-80x12-14 ji. with rather in- 

 distinct paraphyses. Sporidia fasciculate, fusoid -cylindrical, j-ellowish- 

 hyaline, multiseptate, multinucleate at first, straight while Ijing in the 



