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pillate. Stylospoi-es lanceolate, obtuse, slightly curved, 3-septate, hya- 

 line, 30 X 8 //. 



On bark of Ficus, California (Harkness). 



Asci and sporidia not seen. Rtylospores evidently different from 

 those of G. ptdicuns. 



MELANOSPORA, Corda. 



Icones I, p. 24. 



Perithecia superficial but with the base more or less sunk in a 

 thick layer of interwoven hyphs, without any true stroma, of soft, fleshy 

 substance, ti-anslucent, globose-pyriform with a long beak. Sporidia 

 elliptical, mostlj' continuous, dark. 



A. Sporidia continuous. 



M. chionea, (Fr.) (Plate 14) 



Sphczria chionea^ Fr. S. M. II, p. 446. 

 Ceratostoma ch-ioneum, Fr. Obs. II, p. 340. 

 Melanospora chionea, Corda Icon. I, p. 25. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 2015.— Thum, M. U. 1844.— Krgr. Fungi. Sax. 273. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, superficial, globose, white-woolly, 

 300-400 fi diam., with a straight, reddish-yellow, stout beak about 1 

 mm. long and having a few spreading hairs at its apex. Asci obovate- 

 clavate, stipitate, 8-spored, 35-45x13-16 (p. sp.) Sporidia croAvded 

 or imperfectly biseriate, gloljose-elliptical, brown, 10-12 x 9-10 /i. 



On decaying pine leaves and on leaves of deciduous trees, London, 

 Canada (Dearness). The hairs at the end of the Ijeak are not as dis- 

 tinct as in the European specimens. 



M. lagenkria, (Pers.) 



Spharia lagenaria^ Pers. Syn. p. 58. 

 Ceratostoma lagenarium, Fr. Sumni. Veg. Sc. p. 396. 

 Auerswaldia laginaria, Rab. Hedw. I, p. 116. tab. XV, fig. 2. _ 

 Melanospora lagenarza, Fckl. Symb. p. 126. 

 Exsicc. i;ckl. F. Rh. 807.— Rehm Asc. 699. 



Perithecia scattered or gregarious, emergent-superficial, sph^eroid 

 or subovoid, rugulose, at first yellowish, then liver color and finally 

 black, 400-420 ;j. diam., with a very long (2-2J pi), straight or flexu- 

 ous beak tipped with white hairs. Asci broad-clavate, stipitate, 35-40 

 X 12-15/^. Sporidia irregularly crowded, elliptical with ends atten- 

 uated, 11-14X 6 //, becoming brown. 



Given on the authority of Peck (27t]i Rep. p. 110), who found it 

 in the Adirondack Mts., N. Y., on the hymeniujii of some old Poly- 

 porus, He says: "Asci very broad, spores crowded, simple, elliptical, 

 colored 12|x7i/^." 

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