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Yar. chcu'tarum, (CA. cAa>-<fwi«??i, Ehr. Sylva. p. 27)? issued in Ell. 

 & Evrht/N. A. F. 2d Scr. 1541 as Gh. chartarum, Ehr., in Thum. M. 

 U. 1942 and Roum. F. G. 4930, as Ch. oUvaceum, C. & E., differs only 

 in its slightly smaller sporidia and color varying from nearly black 

 to mouse-color, but sometimes greenish-yellow as in the type. 



Judging from the description of that species and the figui'c in 

 Corda's Icones, this var. on paper can hardly l^e the genuine Ch. 

 chartariiiii, Ehr. which with Ch. Fieberi. Cda. and Ch. globosmii, Kze., 

 Dr. Zopf includes in his Ch. Kicnzeanum. 



Ch. bostrychodes, Zopf, Entw. d. Chaet. p. 81. tab. 7, figs. 14-28. 



Ch. caninum, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. IV, p. 79. 

 Exsicc. Sydow. M. March. 43. ?— Rab. F. E. 3340. 



Perithecia small, elliptical, fusoiil, or cylindrical, reaching 340 [i 

 high and 220 ,m thick, brown, with a short, papillose, hyaline ostiolum. 

 Root-like hairs from the base (rhizoids) not very numerous. Apical 

 tuft consisting of regularly spirally bent, roughish hairs, Asci club- 

 shaped, p. sp. 20-22x7-10 n with a stipe-like liase 20-30 n long. 

 Sporidia ovate-globose or elliptical, somewhat flattened, 5-6 x 4-5 //, 

 olive-brown. On dog's dung and on an old cast-off leather shoe. Louis- 

 iana (Langlois), on the first named host, Long Island, N. Y. (Zabriskie). 



Ch. lanosum, Pk., 28th Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. p. 64. 



Exsicc. Roum. F. G. 4437? 



Perithecia minute, subglobose, scattered or gregarious, densely cov- 

 ered with long woolly hairs, which are either dingy olivaceous or 

 mouse-colored. Asci short, broad, fugacious. Sporidia subgloliose, at 

 first pale, then slightly colored, 7|-8^ a diam. with a single large nu- 

 cleus. 



On herbarium specimens of grasses, Albany, N. Y. (Peck). 



The specimens in Fungi Gallici above quoted have the asci (p. sp.) 

 35-40 X 12-15 /i with a stipe-like base 15-20 /i long. Sporidia closely 

 packed, globose-elliptical, yellowish-hyaline, very short-apiculate-point- 

 ed at each end, 10-13x8-10 //; apical hairs very long, spreading, 

 smooth, very sparsely septate, brown, 5-6 n diam., not abundant. 

 Perithecia \-l mm. diam. with apex bare, black and shining. 



Ch. funicolura, Cke. Grev. I, p. 176. 



Perithecia scattered, subovate, black; hairs of the vertex very 

 long, dichotomous or simple, erect, slender, acute, black. Sporidia 

 lemon-shaped, dingy brown. 



